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Building Content Literacy
Strategies for the Adolescent Learner
Edited by:
- Roberta L. Sejnost - Loyola University Chicago, USA
- Sharon M. Thiese - Geneva High School, Geneva, IL
May 2010 | 176 pages | Corwin
Presenting a snapshot of how adolescents learn, Roberta L. Sejnost and Sharon M. Thiese offer research-based best practices and strategies that enable teachers to increase student learning by more effectively integrating reading, writing, and critical thinking into their content instruction.
Building Content Literacy: Strategies for the Adolescent Learner begins with a discussion of the challenges of teaching adolescents and follows with:
- Strategies to foster acquisition of specialized and technical content vocabulary
- Specific processes and skills students may use to comprehend narrative and expository texts
- A variety of writing-to-learn strategies
Speaking-to-learn strategies.
Finally, the authors consider the challenges that face students in the age of technology and address the new literacies that can be utilized to engage students and increase learning.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. The Challenge of Adolescent Literacy
2. Teaching Specialized and Technical Vocabulary
3. Reading to Learn in Content Area Disciplines
4. Writing to Learn in Content Area Disciplines
5. Speaking to Learn in Content Area Disciplines
6. Fostering Real World Literacy
References
Index
A good overview text for use in an undergraduate introductory literacy course for pre-service content area teachers.
Language & Literacy Education, University of Georgia
October 15, 2012
