Reading and Learning in Content Areas

With its easy-to-read format and hands-on approach, this new edition retains many of the basic themes that made it popular, while presenting new and exciting ideas that reflect the advances in technology and the emphasis on multiculturalism. Based on a constructivist approach, the text introduces numerous ways for teachers to facilitate students' ability to gain understanding through reading, thinking, and communicating in subject matters.

This new reading methods text offers future teachers the solid research base and wealth of teaching strategies they need to improve secondary students' reading in essential content areas. Reading and Learning in Content Areas advocates a holistic, literacy perspective that focuses on the integration of reading, writing, cooperative learning, and critical thinking. The authors stress the importance of taking a constructivist approach to teaching reading...one that is ideally suited to today's increasingly culturally diverse classrooms.