Content Area Literacy Strategies That Work

Author : Patricia A. Antonacci,Catherine M. O’Callaghan,Esther Berkowitz
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483347653

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Developing Content Area Literacy by Patricia A. Antonacci,Catherine M. O’Callaghan,Esther Berkowitz Pdf

Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy, Second Edition is designed to help busy middle school and secondary teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students, including English language learners. Each of the 40 evidence-based strategies is organized around eight essential areas of literacy instruction: academic vocabulary, reading fluency, narrative text, informational text, media and digital literacies, informational writing, critical thinking, and independent learning. Each topic has five strategies from which to choose, giving teachers ample variety to meet the diverse needs of the classroom.

Author : Lori G. Wilfong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351240871

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Content Area Literacy Strategies That Work by Lori G. Wilfong Pdf

Content area teachers are now being tasked with incorporating reading and writing instruction, but what works? In this essential book from Routledge and AMLE, author Lori G. Wilfong describes ten best practices for content area literacy and how to implement them in the middle-level classroom. She also points out practices that should be avoided, helping you figure out which ideas to ditch and which to embrace. Topics covered include... Building background knowledge quickly Using specific strategies to scaffold focus while reading Using small group reading strategies to bring personal response and accountability to the content Understanding items that make reading in different disciplines unique Teaching content area vocabulary in meaningful ways Making writing an authentic process through daily and weekly assignments Planning and teaching effective informational and argumentative pieces Each chapter includes Common Core connections and practical templates and tools. The templates are available as free eResources so you can easily print them for classroom use.

Author : Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Content area reading
ISBN : 0135180872

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Improving Adolescent Literacy by Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey Pdf

Straightforward, affordable, and practical, Improving Adolescent Literacy gives all middle and secondary school teachers instructional routines that will allow them to develop the content literacy skills of their students. Chapter-opening vignettes from actual classrooms show readers effective teaching in action and give them a look at how the chapter's instructional approach works within content area teaching. Research-based rationales for each strategy follow the vignettes and provide an in-depth look at how to implement the strategy, along with examples of each strategy across the curriculum. In this 5th Edition, the authors provide new classroom examples from their colleagues across the disciplines as well as new instructional routines that have been researched and validated since the publication of the last edition. Also, this edition has been re-organized, adding three new chapters, to focus on the ways in which teachers can use reading, writing, speaking, and listening in their classes, emphasizing reading and comprehending texts, creating graphic organizers, developing vocabulary knowledge, and writing to learn.

Author : Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Content area reading
ISBN : 0132487128

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Improving Adolescent Literacy by Douglas Fisher,Nancy Frey Pdf

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, Third Edition, gives teachers and teacher candidates the tools they need to help all students work toward mastery of literacy and comprehension of content area texts. Practical, straightforward, and affordable, this guide is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom.

Author : Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135605599

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Content Area Reading and Learning by Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan Pdf

How can teachers make content-area learning more accessible to their students? This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies to help all middle and secondary teachers effectively enable their students to develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning. The goal is to help teachers model, through excellent instruction, the importance of lifelong content-area learning. This working textbook provides students maximum interaction with the information, strategies, and examples presented in each chapter. Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies, Third Edition is organized around five themes: Content Area Reading: An Overview The Teacher and the Text The Students The Instructional Program School Culture and Environment in Middle and High School Classrooms Pedagogical features: Each chapter includes a graphic organizer, a chapter overview, a Think Before Reading Activity, one or more Think While Reading Activities, and a Think After Reading Activity. The activities present questions and scenarios designed to integrate students’ previous knowledge and experience with their new learnings about issues related to content area reading, literacy, and learning, and to serve as catalysts for thinking and discussions. New in the Third Edition The latest information on literacy strategies in every content area Research-based strategies for teaching students to read informational texts Up-to-date information for differentiating instruction for English-speaking and non-English speaking students An examination of youth culture and the role it plays in student learning A look at authentic learning in contexts related to the world of work Ways of using technology and media literacy to support content learning Suggestions for using writing in every content area to enhance student learning Ideas for using multiple texts for learning content A focus on the assessment-instruction connection Strategies for engaging and motivating students Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies, Third Edition, is intended as a primary text for courses on middle and high school content area literacy and learning.

Author : Roberta L. Sejnost,Sharon Thiese
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452280837

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Reading and Writing Across Content Areas by Roberta L. Sejnost,Sharon Thiese Pdf

This invaluable guide offers step-by-step, research-based strategies that will help you increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas.

Author : Stephanie Harvey,Anne Goudvis
Publisher : Stenhouse Publishers
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781571104816

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Strategies that Work by Stephanie Harvey,Anne Goudvis Pdf

Describes strategies teachers can use to promote reading comprehension in students from kindergarten through eighth grade; and includes examples of student work, illustrations, and other reference tools.

Author : Roberta L. Sejnost,Sharon M. Thiese
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452271378

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Building Content Literacy by Roberta L. Sejnost,Sharon M. Thiese Pdf

This guide presents research-based strategies that enable secondary teachers to increase adolescent learning while meeting standards by incorporating reading, writing, and critical thinking into content instruction.

Author : Douglas Fisher,William Brozo,Nancy Frey
Publisher : Teaching Strategies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 0133347966

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50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy by Douglas Fisher,William Brozo,Nancy Frey Pdf

Some of the best-known authors in the field come together to provide teachers with fifty step-by-step procedures for implementing content area instructional routines to improve students' literacy skills. 50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy, 3/e helps adolescents to become more successful readers. Middle and high school teachers can immediately put to use its practical information and real classroom examples from science, social studies, English, math, the visual and performing arts, and core electives to improve students' reading, writing, and oral language development. Going above and beyond basic classroom strategies, the instructional routines recommend simple changes to teachers' everyday procedures that foster student comprehension, such as thinking aloud, using question-answer relationships, and teaching with word walls. The routines are: Selected to ensure that all students engage in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing as part of the literacy process. Taken from real classrooms, real students, and real results. Organized for easy and quick referencing. Applicable to English learners and struggling readers. This new edition features: NEW! More detailed classroom scenarios. NEW! New routines that address the Common Core State Standards. NEW! Up-to-date research reviews and references. NEW! A focus on additional content areas.

Author : Carolyn Chapman,Rita King
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452273648

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Differentiated Instructional Strategies for Writing in the Content Areas by Carolyn Chapman,Rita King Pdf

Use writing as a tool for helping students master content! This updated edition of a best-selling book offers explicit strategies for differentiating writing instruction to help students learn content and develop as writers. The authors address how to create a climate for writing, use flexible groupings, differentiate instruction, and assess student writing. Offering new strategies and activities for effective writing instruction, this second edition: Covers informational text writing and critical thinking skills Includes guidance for working with English language learners Discusses current research about writing and learning Offers expanded coverage of assessment methods and tools

Author : Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351760348

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Content Area Reading and Learning by Diane Lapp,James Flood,Nancy Farnan Pdf

How can teachers make content-area learning more accessible to their students? This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies to help all middle and secondary teachers effectively enable their students to develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning. The goal is to help teachers model, through excellent instruction, the importance of lifelong content-area learning. This working textbook provides students maximum interaction with the information, strategies, and examples presented in each chapter. This book is organized around five themes: Content Area Reading: An Overview The Teacher and the Text The Students The Instructional Program School Culture and Environment in Middle and High School Classrooms. Pedagogical features in each chapter include: a graphic organizer; a chapter overview, Think Before, Think While and Think After Reading Activities - which are designed to integrate students’ previous knowledge and experience with their new learnings about issues related to content area reading, literacy, and learning, and to serve as catalysts for thinking and discussions. This textbook is intended as a primary text for courses on middle and high school content area literacy and learning.

Author : John Readence,Judtih Dunkerly Bean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1524999865

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Content Area Literacy by John Readence,Judtih Dunkerly Bean Pdf

Author : Mimi Miller,Nancy Veatch
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Content area reading
ISBN : 0135034841

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Literacy in Context (LinC) by Mimi Miller,Nancy Veatch Pdf

"Teachers and students studying to be teachers want strategies that they can use in the classroom and this book definitely delivered...The reader is hooked from the first page."---Amy MacKenzie, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY --

Author : Judith L. Irvin
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015041084693

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Reading and the Middle School Student by Judith L. Irvin Pdf

The last three decades have been a time of renewed interest in middle-level education. In fact, membership in the National Middle School Association has skyrocketed. Also, current research and theory in reading education have contributed to what educators know about the most exciting ways for improving literacy abilities. This is a new EDITION of the best-selling guide to middle-school literacy instruction and literacy programs. Numerous strategies are recommENDed for the instruction of vocabulary, comprehension, study skills, and using literature across the curriculum. This book is for prospective and practicing teachers, program specialists, and resource teachers concerned with improving the literacy abilities of mid-level learners. Parents will also find it helpful.

Author : Sonja Cherry-Paul,Dana Johansen
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 0325076855

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Breathing New Life Into Book Clubs by Sonja Cherry-Paul,Dana Johansen Pdf

Foreword / Cornelius Minor Gratitude -- Creating a culture of reading through book clubs -- Organizing and setting up book clubs -- Launching and managing book clubs -- Lighting the fire of discussion -- Resources at a glance -- Living with books all year long.