Content Area Reading : Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum

by Vacca, Richard T.; Vacca, Jo Anne L.

• ISBN13: 9780321088109
• ISBN10: 0321088107
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-07-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

The market leader for twenty-two years, this text is an ambitious exploration of content literacy, while maintaining its reputation as workable and sensible. This text is designed to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and practices from which students can work. The Seventh Edition has a reorganized format to reflect the text's exploration of content literacy. This organization reflects an integrative approach to literacy. Content area reading has grown into a reflective exploration of content literacy the ability to use reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum. This text's organization reflects this interpretative approach to literacy.

Table of Contents

Detailed Contents	ix
Preface	xvii
Part 1 Teaching and Learning with Texts	1	(158)
Reading Matters	2	(32)
Learning with Textbooks, Trade Books, and Electronic Texts	34	(36)
Making Authentic Assessments	70	(48)
Bringing Students and Texts Together	118	(41)
Part 2 Instructional Strategies	159	(234)
Vocabulary and Concepts	160	(30)
Prereading Strategies	190	(24)
Talking to Learn	214	(32)
Writing to Learn	246	(40)
Study Strategies	286	(36)
Study Guides	322	(28)
Struggling Readers	350	(43)
Part 3 Professional Development	393	(27)
Growth and Reflection in the Teaching Profession	394	(26)
Appendix A Internet Addresses for Content Areas	420	(13)
Appendix B Graphic Representations with Text Frames	433	(4)
Appendix C Affixes with Invariant Meanings	437	(4)
Appendix D Commonly Used Prefixes with Varying Meanings	441	(2)
Bibliography	443	(16)
Name Index	459	(5)
Subject Index	464