Reimagining Content-area Literacy Instruction

by Draper, Roni Jo; Broomhead, Paul; Jensen, Amy Petersen; Nokes, Jeffery D.; Siebert, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780807751268
• ISBN10: 080775126X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780807771334
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-19
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Today’s teachers need to prepare students for a world that places increasingly higher literacy demands on its citizens. In this timely book, the authors explore content-area literacy and instruction in English, music, science, mathematics, social studies, visual arts, technology, and theatre. Each of the chapters has been written by teacher educators who are experts in their discipline. Their key recommendations reflect the aims and instructional frameworks unique to content-area learning. This resource focuses on how literacy specialists and content-area educators can combine their talents to teach all readers and writers in the middle and secondary school classroom. The text features vignettes from classroom practice with visuals to demonstrate, for example, how we read a painting or hear the discourse of a song.

Author Biography

Roni Jo Draper is an associate professor in the Department of Teacher Education in the David O. McKay School of Education. Paul Broomhead is associate professor and coordinator of the Music Education Division in the School of Music. Amy Petersen Jensen is an associate professor in the College of Fine Arts and Communications. Jeffery D. Nokes is an assistant professor in the History Department. Daniel Siebert is an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics Education. All editors are at Brigham Young University, Utah.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Aims and Criteria for Collaboration in Content-Area Classrooms	p. 1
Rethinking Texts, Literacies, and Literacy Across and Curriculum	p. 20
(Re)Imagining Literacies for Mathematics Classrooms	p. 40
(Re)Imagining Literacies for History Classrooms	p. 54
(Re)Imagining Literacies for Music Classrooms	p. 69
(Re)Imagining Literacies for Technology Classrooms	p. 82
(Re)Imagining Literacies for Theatre Classrooms	p. 97
(Re)Imagining Literacies for English Language Arts Classrooms	p. 113
(Re)Imagining Literacies for Science Classrooms	p. 127
(Re)Imagining Literacies for Visual Arts Classrooms	p. 144
(Re)Imagining Collaborations for Content-Area Literacy	p. 159
About the Contributors	p. 172
Index	p. 175
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