Full Description
Content Area Literacy by Mark Conley, one of today's top literacy researchers, brings educators a wealth of hands-on, ready-to-use ideas, strategies and techniques for helping today's diverse secondary school students develop the literacy skills they need to be successful in all content areas. The first section of the book helps teachers confront the need to fully understand today's educational landscape, while the second section focuses on the specifics of how to go about planning and teaching, using principles of content area literacy. A unique final chapter pulls it all together by showing educators how to enlist students' cooperation while reaching out to parents and the community to support teaching and learning.
Contents
Preface ForewordSECTION 1 Content Area Literacy: Promoting Learning for Today's ChallengesChapter 1 Content Area Literacy: Helping All Adolescents Learn in New TimesChapter 2 Adolescent Literacy, Diversity, and Teaching Today's Learners Chapter 3 How to Pursue High Expectations for Teaching and Learning in an Era of Standards and Accountability Chapter 4 Alternative Ways to Plan and Teach Lessons SECTION 2 Content Area Literacy: Teaching Today's LearnersChapter 5 Understanding and Using Texts Chapter 6 Ongoing Assessment Chapter 7 Activating Prior Knowledge and Increasing Motivation Before Reading Chapter 8 Building Vocabulary Knowledge and Strategies Chapter 9 Guiding Students during Reading Chapter 10 Guiding Students' Critical Literacy Chapter 11 Developing Content Area Writers Chapter 12 Building Literacy and Community from Inside and Outside the Classroom ReferencesIndex
