Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work (3rd Edition)
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, Third Edition, gives teachers and teacher candidates the tools they need to help all students work toward mastery of literacy and comprehension of content area texts. Practical, straightforward, and affordable, this guide is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom.
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Fisher and Frey (teacher education and language and literacy education, San Diego State U.) offer a guide for teachers and teacher candidates to improving the content area literacy of middle and secondary school students. They discuss grouping and instructional strategies for using language and literacy-based methods to teach English, math, history/social science, science, and electives using anticipatory activities, vocabulary instruction, read alouds and shared reading, questioning, graphic organizers, notetaking and notemaking, writing to learn, and other ideas, with vignettes of classroom models. They conclude with a chapter on standards and assessments, which has been revised for this edition with more information on formal and informal assessments and a new section on feed forward. This edition also has new classroom examples, new scenarios of English learners, a focus on struggling readers, and updated research. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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