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Preface | p. xiii |
Content Literacy and the Reading Process | p. 1 |
Assumptions Underlying Content Teaching | p. 4 |
Subject Matter | p. 4 |
Role of the Textbook | p. 5 |
Active and Independent Readers | p. 6 |
Fluent Readers | p. 9 |
Fluency with Information Technology | p. 10 |
What It Means to Be Literate | p. 11 |
Literate Thinking | p. 12 |
Content Literacy | p. 13 |
The New Literacy Studies | p. 14 |
The Reading Process | p. 17 |
A Cognitive View | p. 17 |
A Social Constructionist Perspective | p. 25 |
The Role of Motivation | p. 28 |
Summary | p. 33 |
Suggested Readings | p. 33 |
Language, Diversity, and Culture | p. 34 |
Language as a Vehicle for Teaching and Learning Content | p. 37 |
Seeing Language as Social Practice | p. 37 |
Dealing with Gendered Language in the Classroom and the Text | p. 38 |
Diversity in Language and Learning | p. 41 |
Second-Language Acquisition and Learning | p. 42 |
Dialect Differences | p. 47 |
Struggling or Reluctant Readers | p. 49 |
Gifted Learners | p. 51 |
Teaching and Learning in Culturally Diverse Classrooms | p. 53 |
Today's Youth Culture | p. 53 |
CREDE's Standards for Effective Pedagogy and Learning | p. 54 |
Integrating Language, Culture, and Content | p. 55 |
Culturally Responsive Professional Growth | p. 56 |
Appreciating Diversity | p. 56 |
Involving Parents and Community | p. 58 |
Linking School and Home | p. 59 |
Summary | p. 60 |
Suggested Readings | p. 61 |
Creating a Favorable Learning Environment | p. 62 |
Affective Characteristics | p. 65 |
Linking Content Literacy with Student's Lives | p. 65 |
Adaptive Instruction | p. 68 |
Providing Choices | p. 70 |
Froms of Grouping | p. 70 |
Ability Grouping | p. 71 |
Cooperative Learning | p. 72 |
Cross-Age Tutoring | p. 75 |
Discussion Groups | p. 76 |
Reading and Writing Workshops | p. 78 |
Creating Community with Technology and Multimedia | p. 79 |
Technology | p. 79 |
Multimedia | p. 81 |
Assistive Technology | p. 82 |
Conflict Resolution | p. 83 |
What the Research Says | p. 83 |
Strategies for Managing Conflict | p. 84 |
Summary | p. 86 |
Suggested Readings | p. 86 |
Planning for Content Literacy | p. 87 |
Instructional Decision Making | p. 90 |
Content Objectives | p. 91 |
Language and Literacy Objectives | p. 93 |
Learning Materials | p. 94 |
Student Capabilities and Needs | p. 94 |
Evaluation and Assessment | p. 97 |
Planning and Educational Technology | p. 98 |
Teaching Resources on the Web | p. 99 |
Planning Student Involvement with the Internet | p. 101 |
Structured Frameworks for Content Literacy Lessons | p. 103 |
Direct Instruction | p. 103 |
The Instructional Framework | p. 104 |
Reciprocal Teaching | p. 105 |
Beyond the Daily Plan | p. 109 |
School-Wide Programs | p. 109 |
Interdisciplinary Teaching | p. 111 |
Thematic Teaching | p. 113 |
Unit Planning | p. 113 |
Summary | p. 121 |
Suggested Readings | p. 121 |
Assessment of Students and Textbooks | p. 122 |
Assessing Students | p. 125 |
Tests and Testing: A Consumer Advisory | p. 125 |
Types of Assessment | p. 129 |
Learning about Students | p. 137 |
Grades and Grading | p. 143 |
Portfolio Assessment | p. 151 |
Assessing Textbooks | p. 157 |
Readability Formulas | p. 158 |
Consumer Judgments | p. 160 |
Summary | p. 161 |
Suggested Readings | p. 162 |
Preparing to Read | p. 163 |
The Role of Prior Knowledge | p. 166 |
Barriers to New Learning | p. 166 |
The Teacher's Task | p. 168 |
Assessing and Building Prior Knowledge | p. 168 |
The List-Group-Label Strategy | p. 169 |
Graphic Organizers | p. 169 |
Reading and Listening | p. 169 |
Writing | p. 171 |
Activating Prior Knowledge with Prereading Strategies | p. 173 |
Anticipation Guides | p. 174 |
Problem-Solving Activities | p. 182 |
Problem-Based Learning | p. 182 |
Designing WebQuests | p. 183 |
K-W-L | p. 184 |
Summary | p. 187 |
Suggested Readings | p. 187 |
Reading to Learn | p. 188 |
Constructing Meaning with Text | p. 191 |
Helping Students Comprehend | p. 192 |
Teaching Students to be Strategic | p. 193 |
Making Text Comprehensible | p. 195 |
The Role of Fluency in Comprehension | p. 195 |
Questions and Questioning | p. 197 |
When to Ask | p. 199 |
What to Ask | p. 199 |
How to Ask | p. 206 |
Comprehension Guides | p. 211 |
Three-Level Guides | p. 211 |
Selective Reading Guides | p. 213 |
Interactive Reading Guides | p. 215 |
Sensing and Responding to Text Structure | p. 215 |
Common Text Structures | p. 215 |
Teaching about Text Structures | p. 218 |
Summary | p. 226 |
Suggested Readings | p. 226 |
Increasing Vocabulary and Conceptual Growth | p. 227 |
Learning Words and Concepts | p. 229 |
How Students Learn Vocabulary | p. 230 |
Word-Learning Tasks | p. 231 |
Levels of Word Knowledge | p. 232 |
Readers' Resources for Learning New Words | p. 233 |
Teaching Vocabulary | p. 235 |
Criteria for Selecting Vocabulary | p. 237 |
Guidelines for Vocabulary Instruction | p. 238 |
Strategies for Introducing and Teaching Vocabulary | p. 239 |
Developing Students' Independence | p. 245 |
Using Context Clues | p. 245 |
Using Familiar Word Parts | p. 248 |
Using Dictionaries | p. 249 |
Vocabulary Self-Collection | p. 251 |
Intensive Approaches for Struggling Readers and English Language Learners | p. 252 |
Reinforcing Vocabulary | p. 256 |
Matching Activities, Puzzles, and Games | p. 257 |
Categorizing Activities | p. 257 |
Analogies | p. 259 |
Concept Circles | p. 260 |
Summary | p. 264 |
Suggested Readings | p. 264 |
Reflecting on Reading | p. 265 |
Engaging Students through Discussion | p. 268 |
Small-Group Discussions | p. 268 |
Peer-Led Literature Circles | p. 271 |
Guiding Student Reflection | p. 272 |
Reaction Guides | p. 273 |
Reading for Different Purposes | p. 274 |
Discussion Webs | p. 276 |
Intra-Act Procedure | p. 279 |
Promoting Critical Literacy | p. 281 |
Teaching Literacy for Critical Awareness | p. 282 |
Incorporating Critical Media Literacy into the Curriculum | p. 283 |
Summary | p. 289 |
Suggested Readings | p. 289 |
Writing across the Curriculum | p. 290 |
What Content Teachers Need to Know about Writing | p. 292 |
Writing and Reading | p. 293 |
The Writing Process | p. 295 |
Social Construction of Writing | p. 297 |
Writing and the Computer | p. 300 |
Writing Activities for Content Areas | p. 301 |
Writing Assignments | p. 302 |
Learning Logs and Journals | p. 306 |
Other Informal Writing Activities | p. 310 |
Reviewing and Summarizing | p. 312 |
Guiding Student Writing | p. 316 |
Writing to Inquire | p. 322 |
Preparing for Student Inquiry | p. 324 |
Collecting and Organizing Information | p. 325 |
Writing a Report | p. 328 |
Alternatives to the Traditional Research Report | p. 329 |
Responding to Student Writing | p. 332 |
Peer Responses | p. 332 |
Teacher Conferences | p. 334 |
Formal Evaluation | p. 335 |
Summary | p. 336 |
Suggested Readings | p. 336 |
Studying and Study Strategies | p. 337 |
Prerequisites for Effective Studying | p. 339 |
Motivation | p. 340 |
Teachers' Expectations | p. 340 |
Knowledge of the Criterion Task | p. 340 |
Domain Knowledge | p. 341 |
Accessing Information | p. 342 |
Information Literacy and Library Skills | p. 342 |
Web Site Evaluation | p. 344 |
Preparing for Tests | p. 345 |
Objective Tests | p. 345 |
Subjective Tests | p. 347 |
Role of Homework | p. 348 |
Using Study Strategies | p. 350 |
Task Awareness with SQ3R | p. 351 |
Strategy Awareness | p. 351 |
Performance Awareness | p. 352 |
Note-Taking Strategies | p. 354 |
Compare/Contrast Study Matrix | p. 356 |
Internet Search Strategies | p. 359 |
Summary | p. 361 |
Suggested Readings | p. 361 |
Developing Lifetime Readers: Literature in Content Area Classes | p. 362 |
Benefits of Using Literature in Content Areas | p. 366 |
Encouraging Responses to Literature | p. 368 |
Integrating Literature into Content Areas | p. 370 |
Uses of Literature in Content Areas | p. 370 |
Fiction and Nonfiction for Content Areas | p. 376 |
Developing Awareness of Diversity through Literature | p. 381 |
Summary | p. 387 |
Suggested Readings | p. 387 |
Literacy Coaches: A Sign of the Times | p. 389 |
Qualifications and Expectations | p. 391 |
Refining the Process | p. 392 |
Contextualizing the Literacy Coach's Experience | p. 393 |
Forging Partnerships with Teachers | p. 395 |
What Literacy Coaches Need to Know about Scientifically Based Reading Research | p. 397 |
An Incomplete Knowledge Base | p. 398 |
So What's a Literacy Coach to Do? | p. 399 |
Examples of Effective Literacy Coaching across the United States | p. 403 |
Alabama Reading Initiative | p. 403 |
Boston Public Schools | p. 404 |
Reading Success Network | p. 405 |
Summary | p. 406 |
Suggested Readings | p. 406 |
Word Lover's Booklist | p. 407 |
Read-Aloud Books for Content Areas | p. 409 |
Trade Books for Science, Math, and Social Studies | p. 412 |
Culturally Conscious Trade Books | p. 417 |
Standards for the Content Areas | p. 422 |
References | p. 424 |
Author Index | p. 454 |
Subject Index | p. 459 |
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