In this authoritative, highly-respected best seller, pre- and in-service teachers get a wealth of strategies and ideas for teaching content area literacy in an era of high accountability. In-depth attention to the needs of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds is integrated throughout and the guide features a presentation of a wide scope of topics and examples, research-based information, and an accessible writing style. The ideas the trusted authors present are backed by research, tested in real classrooms, and designed to help teachers apply what is useful to their own particular disciplines, making Content Area Reading and Literacy the ideal guide to using reading, writing, and literature effectively to teach in the content areas.

Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms (7th Edition)

Education & Teaching

Alvermann, Donna E.

Gillis, Victoria R.

Phelps, Stephen F.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson

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Words, Language & Grammar

Book by Alvermann, Donna E., Gillis, Victoria R., Phelps, Stephen F.

Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms

Gillis, Victoria

Phelps, Stephen

English as a Second Language

Allyn&Bacon

Note: This is the loose-leaf version of Content Area Reading and Literacy and does not include access to the Pearson eText. To order the Pearson eText packaged with the loose-leaf version, use ISBN 0133846547. A focus on learning content through discipline-appropriate literacy practices, a strong emphasis on writing, and a current look at the use of media in teaching are hallmarks of the new edition of this widely popular text. Throughout, middle and secondary school teachers get a readable presentation of discipline-appropriate literacy practices and examples and adaptions of selected strategies. Set up to ensure comprehension, the chapters link to the Learning Cycle presented in the beginning of the book, graphic organizers help readers navigate chapter content, and questions, summaries, vignettes, and examples make the concepts clear. This edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy features three full chapters focusing on writing instruction, integrates culture and diversity throughout, and expands or reemphasizes important topics, such as life-long readers and learners beyond the printed text, close and critical reading in discipline-appropriate ways, evidence-based writing, and multimodal texts.

Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms, Loose-Leaf Version (8th Edition)

Boggs, George

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 for its scope of topics and examples, its research-based information, and its accessible writing style. Written by trusted authorities in the field of adolescent literacy, Donna Alvermann, Stephen Phelps, and Victoria Ridgeway Gillis, the sixth edition includes up-to-date information on addressing the literacy needs of English learners and a culturally diverse student population.  Victoria Ridgeway Gillis has more than two decades of secondary school teaching experience, which brings added depth and credibility to each chapter.  This text also addresses new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies.    

Content Area Reading and Literacy, Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classroom

Gillis, Victoria Ridgeway

Pearson College Div

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 for its scope of topics and examples, its research-based information, and its accessible writing style. Written by trusted authorities in the field of adolescent literacy, Donna Alvermann, Stephen Phelps, and Victoria Ridgeway Gillis, the sixth edition includes up-to-date information on addressing the literacy needs of English learners and a culturally diverse student population. Victoria Ridgeway Gillis has more than two decades of secondary school teaching experience, which brings added depth and credibility to each chapter. This text also addresses new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies.

Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms (6th Edition)

G1 Hardcover 1998 384p. 9.50x7.75x0.90 READING PROCESS; LANGUAGE, DIVERSITY, AND CULTURE; PLANNING FOR CONTENT LITERACY; ASSESSMENT OF STUDENTS AND TEXTBOOKS; CREATING A FAVORABLE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; PREPARING TO READ; READING TO LERN AND MORE.

Content Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms

The field of education today is continually changing. Portfolio assessment and integrated curriculums are emerging. The use of technology in the classroom is growing. And the multicultural nature of the classroom is greater, too. Today's middle grades teachers must stay abreast of all these topics, and more, so they can be the most effective and innovative educators. This book reflects the changes that have occurred in middle level education in the past several years. With a strong research base, this book helps readers to link their knowledge of young adolescents with their understanding of the curriculum and sound institutional practices. The authors include descriptions of middle grades classrooms and examples of dialogues between teachers and young adolescents, both collected from their visits to real middle grades schools. Middle grades teachers and educational administrators.

Teaching and Learning in the Middle Grades (2nd Edition)

Muth, K. Denise

Directed to preservice and inservice teachers, a new edition of the student text uses a student-centered approach to teach content area literacy and focuses on the needs of students from diverse language and cultural backgrounds.

Content Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms (3rd Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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 comprehension, becoming the first and only text that calls attention to evidence-based research and its implications for instruction. Innovative in its 3 R's framework—Remembering—Reflecting—Reconsidering—it will help readers make connections and improve comprehension.

Content Area Literacy Instruction for the Elementary Grades

Swafford, Jeanne

Montero, M. Kristina

Foreign Language Study & Reference

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