A continuing best-seller, the Sixth Edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy equips preservice and inservice teachers to teach content area literacy in an era of high accountability and provides in-depth and integrated attention to the needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. This well-respected text has been lauded ...
One of the best-selling texts of its kind, Content Area Reading and Literacy, Fourth Edition, equips students to teach content area literacy from a student-centered approach and provides in-depth and integrated attention to the content literacy needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. This well-respected text has been ...
The second edition of Teaching and Learning in the Middle Grades reflects the changes that have occurred in middle-grades education in the past several years. A strong research base helps teachers link their knowledge of young adolescents with their understanding of curriculum and sound instructional practices. Descriptions of middle-grades ...
"Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives, Second Edition" maintains the focus of the first edition on a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. What is different is its emphasis on the importance of valuing adolescents' perspectives - in an era of skyrocketing interest in improving literacy instruction at the middle and ...
One of the only content area books with a strong focus on diversity. Strongly grounded in research with strategies and lesson and unit planning exercises. Discusses reading literature content areas with extensive lists of trade literature in appendices.
This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based principles in order to develop effective curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners. Recommendations are provided for middle and secondary ...
This book addresses critical issues related to pre-adolescent and adolescent literacy learners with a focus on closing the achievement gap. Despite efforts by educators and policymakers during the past several decades, certain groups of students - primarily African American students, English language learners, and students from low-income homes- ...
This text is the first of its kind to focus specifically on content area literacy instruction for the elementary grades using reading, writing, and discussion as tools for learning content in science, social studies, and mathematics as students are learning to read and write. A welcome addition to the content area reading market, this much-needed ...
This title addresses the importance of developing within children and adolescents a critical awareness of the social, political, and enonomic messages emanating from the different forms of popular culture.
Help your struggling middle school and high school students overcome the obstacles to being better readers and thinkers. Drawn primarily from IRA's Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, this collection of 40 articles acknowledges beliefs and situations that interfere with teens' learning, and presents ways to inspire them to be resilient and ...
Covering everything from day-to-day learning activities to schoolwide goals, this engaging book reviews key topics in literacy instruction for grades 5-12 and provides research-based recommendations for practice. Leading scholars present culturally responsive strategies for motivating adolescents; using multiple texts and digital media; ...
A welcome addition to the content area reading market, this much-needed text helps teachers find ways to show elementary school children the classroom value of what they learn outside of school. Using a social constructionist framework, this prestigious author team includes strategies that the National Reading Panel deemed useful in promoting ...
One of the best-selling texts of its kind, Content Area Reading and Literacy, Fourth Edition, equips students to teach content area literacy from a student-centered approach and provides in-depth and integrated attention to the content literacy needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. This well-respected text has been ...
Expert coaches and anyone coaching for the first time will love The Literacy Coach! Reviewers Sum it up! "The framework in which this book is embedded is one of the more elegant ones in existence." Donna Alvermann, The University of Georgia "I found this book to be helpful to not only literacy coaches, but to classroom teachers who may want to ...
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