Teaching Reading in the Content Area: Developing Content Literacy For All Students - Hardcover

Cooter, Robert B.; Flynt, Sutton E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471365513 ISBN 13: 9780471365518

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Presents a wide variety of strategies for incorporating reading, writing, listening and speaking into a teaching repertoire. This book attempts to show how holistic teaching can help students become fully literate in the specialty subject.

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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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0471365513
• ISBN 13: 9780471365518
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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