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Project CRISS stands for CReating Independence through Student-owned Strategies: Reading, Writing and Studying Strategies for Literature and Content. It focuses on helping students in grades 4-12 read, understand, organize and study material to facilitate their learning. Based on principles from cognitive psychology and reading, the system builds on the theoretical premises that students must integrate new information with prior knowledge and be actively involved in their own learning. The strategies were originally developed to enhance students' reading and writing skills but have application in all content areas. This makes Project CRISS an excellent program to use in the interdisciplinary framework of an elementary classroom to high school and to apply its learning strategies throughout a broad curriculum. Project CRISS was approved as a National Diffusion Network program in l993.