Full Description
"We often hear middle and high school teachers are frustrated because their students can't understand the textbooks or can't write effectively about their particular content. This book will provide both the framework for solving this dilemma and the specific, practical classroom practices that teachers can use each day to help students become more competent readers and writers."
-Douglas Johnson, Assistant Superintendent
Kane County Regional Office of Education, IL
"Every middle school and secondary teacher should have a copy of this book. It not only provides the theoretical basis for each strategy, but it also provides effective instructions for use of the strategies in the classroom."
-Dorothy Giroux, Program Director, Initial Teacher Preparation Program
School of Education, Loyola University Chicago
Eager for proven methods to strengthen your students' content literacy?
Then this book is a must-have for your classroom! Using a step-by-step approach that makes the strategies easy to understand and implement, the authors provide updated research-based strategies that will help increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen their writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas. Expanded coverage of content literacy, additional reading and writing strategies for exploring content, and suggestions for working with struggling readers are included in this revised edition.
This rich resource also offers:
Tips for using trade books in the classroom
Graphic organizers to help students recognize text structures
Assessment tools
Technology activities in every chapter
Real classroom examples of how the strategies have been implemented
More ways to evaluate the "readability" of textbooks
Over 40 ready-to-use reproducibles
Whether you are getting ready to begin teaching or are a veteran teacher, this accessible, invaluable handbook will give you the tools you need to help your students become lifelong learners!
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Creating the Framework for Reading
Literacy and Content Area Literacy: What Are They?
The Status of Literacy Today
What Can Teachers Do to Foster Literacy?
Strategic Readers
Guiding the Strategic Reader
Matching the Reader and the Text
Interpreting the Text
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
2. Setting the Framework for Writing
Introduction
The Writing Process
Creating
Terms for Writing
Shaping: Organizational Approaches
Shaping and Drafting the Content
Revising
Journals and Learning Logs
Writing for Standardized Tests
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
3. Keying in to Vocabulary
Principles of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
Teacher-Centered Strategies
Student-Centered Strategies
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
4. Strategies for Comprehension
What Makes a Strategic Reader?
The Reading Process
Pre-Reading Strategies
During-Reading Strategies
After-Reading Strategies
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
5. Integrating Reading and Writing in the Classroom
The Reading-Writing Connection
Characteristics of Effective Reading and Writing Strategies
Fostering Critical Understanding
Engaging Readers and Writers in the Process of Revision
Fostering Prior Knowledge
Encouraging Students to Become Personally Involved
Asking Students to Invoke Personal Feelings
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
6. Research Writing
Nontraditional Research
Alternative Research
Research Skills
Traditional Research
The Research Process
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
7. Reading and Writing: Where It Can Lead
Formal Assessments in Reading
Formal Assessments in Writing
Alternative Assessments
Test-Taking Strategies
Study Strategies for Good Test Performance
Chapter Summary
Computer Connections
Teacher Tips
Bibliography
Index
