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

Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms
ISBN-10
0132685191
ISBN-13
9780132685191
Series
Content Area Reading and Literacy
Category
Content area reading
Pages
483
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Allyn & Bacon
Authors
Donna E. Alvermann, Victoria Ridgeway Gillis, Stephen F. Phelps

Description

"Students and teachers have long appreciated the scope of topics and examples, the research-based information, and the accessible writing style presented by these three trusted authorities in the field of adolescent literacy. This seventh edition includes up-to-date information to help teachers address the literacy needs of English learners in their classrooms and today's culturally diverse student population, while also addressing new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies. As in previous editions, this seventh edition is based on the assumption that, rather than just a mere add-on, “content literacy is integral to every discipline and special subject area, to the teachable moments that make less stellar ones tolerable, and, most important, to each student's motivation and engagement with learning.” The ideas the authors present are backed by research, tested in real classrooms, and designed to help teachers apply what is useful to their own particular disciplines. The ideas they share-both new and from "--Publisher.

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