This comprehensive text presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. It focuses on reading and writing as processes for constructing meaning through interactions and transactions between the learner, the text, and the social environment. Instructional strategies and approaches are developed to guide students' content learning and literacy development. It also gives teachers sound, theory-based instructional strategies for increasing their teaching effectiveness and developing student's literacy/learning abilities.
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Key Benefit: This book presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. Its major focus is classroom instruction which teaches content knowledge and supports students' literacy abilities in the content areas. It also gives teachers sound, theory-based instructional strategies for increasing their teaching effectiveness and developing student's literacy/learning abilities. Key Topics: Current topics discussed include: cooperative learning; portfolio assessment; reading and writing across the curriculum; thematic instruction and learned instruction across subject areas; developing lifelong readers and writers; second language learning; giftedness; and gender differences. Throughout this comprehensive book, attention is given to issues of cultural and language diversity and the changing needs of middle school and secondary school populations. Market: For professionals working as educators in middle and secondary schools.
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.
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- PublisherWiley
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0471365572
- ISBN 13 9780471365570
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number2
- Number of pages432