Teaching Reading in the Content Area : Developing Content Literacy for All Students

by Robert B. Cooter; E. Sutton Flynt

• ISBN13: 9780471365518
• ISBN10: 0471365513
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

* Focuses on content classrooms at the middle and high school levels. * Introduces the Content Literacy Model. * Offers authentic assessment strategies for content classes. * Suggests ideas for building classroom environments which build a positive affect in students and permit scheduling of numerous content literacy activities. * Features a special chapter showing how mastering the writing process can help students become better readers aqnd comprehenders of content materials. * Includes a unique chapter demonstrating the many benefits and uses of fiction, non-ficition, and various media in subject matter classes. * Discusses "how to teach" literacy skills as you teach content: Presents suggestions that are innovative, and exciting as well as the more traditional teaching methods and strategies which have proven effective for content studies. * Includes a Learners With Special Needs section at the end of each chapter. * Guided Action Research Project (GARP) - outlines a systematic method for trying out ideas described in the text. * Chapter Organization * Begins each chapter with a visual organizer for the chapter, followed by a series of Focus Questions. * Concludes each chapter with a series of Reflection/Application activities * Lists Recommended Readings

Table of Contents

Content Area Reading: Developing Literacy in Subject Matter Classrooms.

Students in the Content Classroom.

Assessing Content Literacy.

The Learning Environment.

Comprehending Text.

Vocabulary Development and the Content Area Classroom.

Learning from Expository Text.

Writing in the Content Areas Classroom.

Extending Learning through Literature.

Toward Independent Learning.

Appendix.