Content Area Reading

Content Area Reading
ISBN-10
0439934494
ISBN-13
9780439934497
Series
Content Area Reading
Category
Education
Pages
112
Language
English
Published
2009
Publisher
SCH
Author
Jim Burke

Description

The Teacher’s Essential Guide to Content Area Reading leads the reader through Burke’s teaching strategies, which draw from a combination of research and Jim’s own experience as a public school teacher. He includes invaluable techniques to improve student reading as well as guidelines for explicit comprehension instruction--which strategies to use, when to use them, and how to use them with a variety of texts. He also features guidelines and a template for designing effective reading lessons across content areas. For use with Grades 6–12.

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