What is CALL?
CALL institutes provide secondary educators with the tools and skills necessary to analyze the academic language demands of course-specific texts and materials. CALL supports teachers in designing effective instruction that meets these demands by providing a framework for teaching disciplinary literacy in science, history-social science, math, language arts, and other subject matter areas.
The CALL framework is unique in the way that:
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It is based on a comprehensive framework for literacy that helps to demystify the particular components that are causing challenges for students.
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It helps teachers access and respond to needs through differentiated instruction.
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There is a focus on academic content-area text and scaffolded support to access the text.
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It contains teacher tools to support text analysis and lesson planning.
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It provides models for explicit instruction inacademic and comprehension strategies.
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It includes strategies for differentiation across level of English Proficiency for English Learners.
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It addresses multiple factors that influence student motivation and engagement.
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There is a focus on sustained collaboration and implementation through a professional learning community model geared towards secondary teachers.
Outcomes
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CALL offers middle and high school content teachers practical, research-based instructional routines that help students access and engage with a variety of complex text across content areas
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CALL provides teachers instructional routines that make challenging text accessible, relevant, and comprehensible to all students, including English learners
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CALL promotes reading independence as students learn to systematically employ the reading comprehension routines implemented and modeled by their teachers
