Full Description
*A successful text and resource for teaching grades 5-12, fully updated65% new material includes 10 new chapters. *Common Core standards are addressed in coverage of hot topics including close reading, text complexity, and differentiated instruction. *Contributors include high-profile leaders in adolescent literacy. *Classroom vignettes, discussion questions, and activities make the book an ideal professional development tool.
Contents
I. Valuing Adolescence1. Texts and Adolescents: Embracing Connections and Connectedness, Alfred W. Tatum2. Meaningful Discipline-Specific Language Instruction for Middle School Students for Whom English Is an Additional Language, Eliane Rubinstein-Avila and Alisa G. Leckie3. The Role of Motivation in Engaged Reading of Adolescents, David G. O'Brien and Deborah R. Dillon4. Using Discourse Study as an Instructional Practice with Adolescents to Develop 21st-Century Literacies of Critically Conscious Citizens, Margaret C. Hagood5. Teaching Literacy to Youth Who Struggle with Academic Literacies, Leigh A. Hall and Aubrey ComperatoreII. Developing Literacy Strategies6. Text Complexity and Deliberate Practice: Common Cores of Learning, Kristen A. Munger and Maria S. Murray7. Active Engagement with Words, Karen Bromley8. Comprehension in Secondary Schools, Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey9. Expanding Adolescent Writing: Building upon Youths' Practices, Purposes, Relationships, and Thoughtfulness, Randy Bomer and Michelle Fowler-Amato10. Reading and Writing across Multiple Texts, Cynthia ShanahanIII. Developing Disciplinary Literacies11. Fostering Acquisition of Mathematics Language, Codruta Temple and Kathleen A. Hinchman12. Reading Challenging Texts in High School: How Teachers Can Scaffold and Build Close Reading for Real Purposes in the Subject Areas, Elizabeth Birr Moje and Jennifer Speyer13. Teaching History and Literacy, Timothy Shanahan and Cynthia Shanahan14. Literacy Support in English/Language Arts Classrooms: Motivation, Dialogue, and Strategy Instruction, Leslie S. Rush and Todd F. Reynolds15. Assisting Struggling Readers with Textbook Comprehension, Heather K. Sheridan-ThomasIV. Addressing Program and Policy Issues16. Multimodality and Literacy Learning: Integrating the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, Fenice B. Boyd and Andrea L. Tochelli17. Traveling Together Over Difficult Ground: Negotiating Success with a Profoundly Inexperienced Reader in an Introduction to Chemistry Class, Cindy Litman and Cynthia Greenleaf18. Differentiating Literacy Instruction for Adolescents, Zaline Roy-Campbell and Kelly Chandler-Olcott19. Assessment for Literacy Growth and Content Learning in Secondary Schools, William G. Brozo20. Coaching and Growing Literacy Communities of Practice, Josephine Peyton Marsh, David R. Krauter, and Lettice Pelotte
