Easy Strategies and Lessons That Build Content Area Reading Skills

Complete Model Lesson, High Interest Reading Lesson Selections, Reproducible Activities
Students will learn the skills and strategies they need to tackle content area reading with the ready-to-go lessons in this book. Each lessons features a brief introduction to a reading strategy, a complete model lessons, a reading selection you can use to teach the strategy, plus reproducible activities. Lessons include Anticipation Guides, Possible Sentence Strategy, Team Webbing, and more!

Joyce Graham Baltas, Ph.D., is a Senior Consultant and Project Director with the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University. Previously she was Director of Research and Professional Development for the Instructional Publishing Group at Scholastic, Inc., responsible for the assessment, staff development, and writing components of Literacy Place, a core reading and language arts program. She has edited a number of professional books for Scholastic, and is the co-author of several titles for Scholastic Teaching Resources, including Easy Lessons and Strategies that Build Content Area Reading Skills, co-authored with Denise Nessel.

Denise Nessel, Ph.D., is an education consultant and writer with professional experience as a classroom teacher, clinician, university professor, curriculum supervisor, author, and software designer. Her interests include teaching reading and writing as thinking processes, integrating reading and writing across the curriculum, and using technology intelligently within instruction. She is currently a Senior Consultant and Project Director for the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education, Teacher's College, Columbia University, an organization that serves urban school districts across the county.