Content Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms FROM THE PUBLISHER
Equips students to teach content area literacy from a student-centered approach and focuses on the content literacy needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas. Content Area Reading (Middle/Secondary).
SYNOPSIS
Alvermann (U. of Georgia) and Phelps (Buffalo State College) present the third edition of this college textbook for preservice and inservice teachers. The new edition includes added emphasis on the issues of struggling readers, English language learners and the literacy needs of students from diverse cultural backgrounds, technology, writing across the curriculum, and a social constructionist framework for learning.
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FROM THE CRITICS
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Assuming that textbooks are necessary for learning content for middle and secondary school students, this text for teachers explores methods of understanding and teaching language comprehension. The authors treat reading, speaking, and writing holistically in their discussions of such topics as student and textbook assessment, favorable learning environment creation, the role of prior knowledge, how students learn, vocabulary and conceptual growth, effective study strategies, and other issues. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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