Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, Third Edition, gives teachers and teacher candidates the tools they need to help all students work toward mastery of literacy and comprehension of content area texts. Practical, straightforward, and affordable, this guide is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom.
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In the pages of this practical, straightforward, affordable guide, teachers and teacher candidates get the tools they need to support their middle and secondary school students’ comprehension and success in literacy and in the content areas. Packed with classroom-proven strategies and procedures from the authors’ and their colleagues’ own experiences, it includes vignettes from actual classrooms showing effective teaching in action and how the instructional strategy works within content area teaching. Also included are research-based rationales for each strategy, providing in-depth looks at how to implement each strategy, along with examples of each strategy across the curriculum. With its focus on providing the right help for English language learners and struggling readers, coupled with media notes that provide ways for teachers to use different technologies to enhance teaching, this guide provides the right combination of strategies, advice, and ideas for improving literacy in all middle and secondary classrooms.
Featured in this new Third Edition . . .
· Practical help for developing literacy skills with English language learners.
· A focus on struggling readers in each chapter.
· New classroom examples added to each chapter from the authors’ own teaching and from teachers with whom they work.
· Examples of how to use technology and media.
· An updated research base of current sources of support and additional reading.
· Revisions in the assessment chapter with additional information about the current state of formal and informal assessments.
“The work is, overall, fantastic, and I commend the authors for their ‘real world’ approach to writing and organizing this textbook. I enjoy all of their work! This book helps pre-service and in-service teachers feel comfortable integrating content area reading strategies in their particular content area.”
–Scott R. Popplewell, Ball State University
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