Teaching Content Reading and Writing - Hardcover

Ruddell, Martha Rapp

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471151610 ISBN 13: 9780471151616

Publisher: Wiley, 2004

Synopsis

With the passage of the "No Child Left Behind" act, and increasing pressures on teachers and administrators to produce results, true literacy is no longer optional. This book provides educators and education students with the classroom tested theories and practices needed to rise to the demand of today’s classroom. Now in its Fourth Edition, this book provides comprehensive, ready to implement, completely current theory, strategy, and implementation of all aspects of teaching reading and writing across the curriculum.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Effective strategies for promoting literacy across the curriculum

Combining a real grounding in actual classroom experience with a solid research and theoretical base, Martha Rapp Ruddell’s Teaching Content Reading and Writing equips you with classroom-tested theories and practices for teaching reading and writing across the curriculum.

Now revised and updated, this Fourth Edition features increased coverage of sheltered instruction, a greater emphasis on the multi-modal nature of the literacy practices of today's youth and its implications in content classrooms, and more coverage of high-stakes testing and alternative assessment formats.

Inside, you’ll find valuable resources including:

• Over 30 different instructional strategies for teachers to use to guide students' reading and writing in middle and secondary schools. 
• Guidelines on how to use technology to promote student literacy in content areas.
• Comprehensive coverage of second language acquisition and development and appropriate instructional practice for teaching bilingual students in multilingual classrooms.
• Step-by-step lists of how to plan and prepare, and what you need to consider to make specific instructional strategies work.
• Demonstration lesson plans in many different content areas throughout.

About the Author

Martha Rapp Ruddell is Professor and Dean Emerita of the School of Education at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In addition to this book, Dr. Ruddell is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and continues actively as a researcher, author, and presenter at professional conferences. A past president of the National Reading Conference, which honored her in 2003 with the Al Kingston Service Award, Dr. Ruddell is a member of the California Reading Association's Hall of Fame and was recently named Distinguished Alumna by the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she had received the Ph.D. degree.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0471151610
• ISBN 13: 9780471151616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 496