Teaching Content Reading and Writing

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.

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.