* Focuses on content classrooms at the middle and high school levels. * Introduces the Content Literacy Model. * Offers authentic assessment strategies for content classes. * Suggests ideas for building classroom environments which build a positive affect in students and permit scheduling of numerous content literacy activities. * Features a special chapter showing how mastering the writing process can help students become better readers aqnd comprehenders of content materials. * Includes a unique chapter demonstrating the ...
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* Focuses on content classrooms at the middle and high school levels. * Introduces the Content Literacy Model. * Offers authentic assessment strategies for content classes. * Suggests ideas for building classroom environments which build a positive affect in students and permit scheduling of numerous content literacy activities. * Features a special chapter showing how mastering the writing process can help students become better readers aqnd comprehenders of content materials. * Includes a unique chapter demonstrating the many benefits and uses of fiction, non-ficition, and various media in subject matter classes. * Discusses "how to teach" literacy skills as you teach content: Presents suggestions that are innovative, and exciting as well as the more traditional teaching methods and strategies which have proven effective for content studies. * Includes a Learners With Special Needs section at the end of each chapter. * Guided Action Research Project (GARP) - outlines a systematic method for trying out ideas described in the text. * Chapter Organization * Begins each chapter with a visual organizer for the chapter, followed by a series of Focus Questions. * Concludes each chapter with a series of Reflection/Application activities * Lists Recommended Readings
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Add this copy of Teaching Reading in the Content Area: Developing to cart. $4.97, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Wiley.
Add this copy of Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: Developing to cart. $54.76, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1996 by Wiley.