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.
Comprehensible and accessible, this new edition places an emphasis on the comprehensive content focus of the previous editions, including an ever-expanding knowledge base in the areas of literacy, cognition and learning, educational policy, ...
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.
With this book, the authors support content-area and language arts teachers alike by pairing more than 75 short, kid-tested reproducible nonfiction texts with 33 simple, ready-to-go lessons that deepen comprehension and support effective ...
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.
This book will provide both the framework for solving this dilemma and the specific, practical classroom practices that teachers can use each day to help students become more competent readers and writers.
"The 13th edition of Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning across the Curriculum continues to reflect an ever-expanding knowledge base grounded in research and practice in the areas of content literacy, instructional scaffolding, ...
With three full chapters on reading comprehension (reflecting the before, during, after reading approach) and a separate chapter that explores multiple literacies, "Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning in an...
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 ...
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Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points...