Reading and Writing Across Content Areas
- Roberta L. Sejnost - Loyola University Chicago, USA
- Sharon Thiese - Geneva High School, Geneva, IL
'Every middle school and secondary teacher should have a copy of this book. It not only provides the theoretical basis for each strategy, but it also effective instructions for use of the strategies in the classroom' - Dorothy Giroux, Program Director, Initial Teacher Preparation Program, School of Education, Loyola University Chicago
Using a step-by-step approach that makes the strategies easy to understand and implement, the authors provide updated research-based strategies that will help increase students' reading comprehension, strengthen their writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas. Expanded coverage of content literacy, additional reading and writing strategies for exploring content, and suggestions for working with struggling readers are included in this revised edition.
This rich resource also offers:
• Tips for using trade books in the classroom
• Graphic organizers to help students recognize text structures
• Assessment tools
• Technology activities in every chapter
• Real classroom examples of how the strategies have been implemented
• More ways to evaluate the "readability" of textbooks
• Over 40 ready-to-use photocopiables
Whether you are getting ready to begin teaching or are an experienced teacher, this accessible, invaluable handbook will give you the tools you need to help your students become lifelong learners!
"This text makes a teacher feel empowered rather than overwhelmed; not many texts truly achieve this! The strategies are applicable and fundamental because they help the students with reading and writing in every class."
"This practical compendium of literacy strategies should be required reading for all middle and high school teachers. The ready-to-use blackline masters are real timesavers for busy educators."
"This bountiful resource provides educators with the tools they need to help students increase their reading and writing achievement in all subject matter classes . . . discovering the new, updated version of Reading and Writing Across the Content Areas is like finding a pot full of gold!"
"This is a wonderful resource for teachers! It includes many research-based reading strategies for classroom use. If you're looking for easy-to-use, hands-on strategies with easily accessible handouts, this is the book for you!"
"We often hear middle and high school teachers are frustrated because their students can't understand the textbooks or can't write effectively about their particular content. This book will provide both the framework for solving this dilemma and the specific, practical classroom practices that teachers can use each day to help students become more competent readers and writers."
"Every middle school and secondary teacher should have a copy of this book. It not only provides the theoretical basis for each strategy but it also effective instructions for use of the strategies in the classroom."
"Reading and Writing Across Content Areas is a wonderful book for content area classroom teachers. Throughout the book, the strategies are explained well and are easy to understand and implement. When you read the cartoons throughout the book, you know that the authors understand children and their teachers."
"The ideas and strategies in this book are practical and useful for all discipline areas and teaching styles. The novice teacher as well as the veteran will find excellent handouts, graphic organizers, and new and creative ideas for presenting information. Students of all levels will reap the benefits of these models."
Covers both Reading AND Writing in the content areas--very student friendly.
In the new edition, the Introduction is now titled Preface, Chapter 5 and 6 were transposed and the title of Chapter 7 Assessing Reading and Writing was changed to: Reading and Writing Where It Can Lead
Specific chapter changes are as follows:
Chapter One: 1) Expanded discussion of content area literacy, especially as it pertains to adolescents who do not read at grade level; 2) Additional ways to evaluate the readability of textbooks; 3) Specific graphic organizers to help students recognize text structure
Chapter Two: 1) Discussion of concerns and issues about writing and Writing Across the Curriculum; 2) Additional writing strategies: Framing paragraphs; Journals and logs; Writing for standardized tests; Additional tips for revision
Chapter Three: Additional vocabulary strategies offered
Chapter Four: 1) Additional strategies for all phases of the reading process: Exclusion Brainstorming, Character Quotes, About/Point, Guided Note taking, Reading from Different; 2) Strategies for the language arts classroom: Using Trade Books in the Classroom, Follow the Characters, Reading from Shared Inquiry, Lit Buddies Project, Illustrated Book Report
Chapter 5 (Previously Chapter 6) Additional strategies to foster the reading-writing connection: Magnet Summary, Cubing, Perspective Cubing , Unsent Letters
Chapter 6 (Previously Chapter 5): Added discussion of research process and topic Selection, taking notes, and writing a rough draft, added scrapbook project
Chapter 7: Added discussion of 6+1 writing strategy; Added discussion of graphic literacy
