50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy
Title | 50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Fisher |
Publisher | Teaching Strategies |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780133347968 |
Some of the best-known authors in the field come together to provide teachers with fifty step-by-step procedures for implementing content area instructional routines to improve students' literacy skills. 50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy, 3/e helps adolescents to become more successful readers. Middle and high school teachers can immediately put to use its practical information and real classroom examples from science, social studies, English, math, the visual and performing arts, and core electives to improve students' reading, writing, and oral language development. Going above and beyond basic classroom strategies, the instructional routines recommend simple changes to teachers' everyday procedures that foster student comprehension, such as thinking aloud, using question-answer relationships, and teaching with word walls. The routines are: Selected to ensure that all students engage in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing as part of the literacy process. Taken from real classrooms, real students, and real results. Organized for easy and quick referencing. Applicable to English learners and struggling readers. This new edition features: NEW! More detailed classroom scenarios. NEW! New routines that address the Common Core State Standards. NEW! Up-to-date research reviews and references. NEW! A focus on additional content areas.
Building Content Literacy
Title | Building Content Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Roberta L. Sejnost |
Publisher | Corwin Press |
Total Pages | 177 |
Release | 2010-02-26 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1452271372 |
"Secondary teachers will find that this superb resource informs the teaching and learning of their students and provides many research-based strategies to enhance reading comprehension and written language in every area." —Johneen Griffin, Director of Secondary Pupil Services Olentangy Local Schools, Lewis Center, OH "Sejnost and Thiese address the national literacy crisis with a practical guidebook that meets the needs of adolescent learners by focusing on the literacy skills needed for the 21st century. The strategies engage learners and create independence in content-area reading." —Rusti Russow, Director of Teaching and Learning Kankakee School District, IL Increase adolescent learners′ success in all content areas! Responding to the challenges associated with teaching middle and high school students, this resource offers specific strategies teachers may use to incorporate reading, writing, and critical thinking throughout content instruction to increase learning. With step-by-step instructions, a wealth of examples, and numerous student reproducibles, the book presents an approach that secondary teachers can implement across all content areas. Roberta L. Sejnost and Sharon M. Thiese focus on research-based practices that increase comprehension and learning while meeting standards, including: Techniques that foster the acquisition and retention of specialized and technical content vocabulary Processes to help students better comprehend narrative and expository texts Approaches to help students use writing and speaking to process their new knowledge and make it their own Techniques for promoting the literacies needed to effectively use various media sources Methods for scaffolding instruction for students with special needs Building Content Literacy is an ideal resource for delivering developmentally appropriate learning experiences and strengthening adolescent′s academic achievement in every content area.
Language and Literacy in Inquiry-Based Science Classrooms, Grades 3-8
Title | Language and Literacy in Inquiry-Based Science Classrooms, Grades 3-8 PDF eBook |
Author | Zhihui Fang |
Publisher | Corwin Press |
Total Pages | 169 |
Release | 2010-09-07 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 141298842X |
This practical guide helps teachers effectively integrate reading strategy instruction, language analysis, and trade books into inquiry-based science classrooms to promote content learning. Inspired by a middle school reading-science integration project, this book explores: The science reading connection and the function of inquiry in science education The challenges associated with science reading and classroom-based strategies for learning language and science The role of literature in the science curriculum How to develop a home science reading program
Improving Adolescent Literacy
Title | Improving Adolescent Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Frey |
Publisher | Pearson Higher Ed |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 2011-11-21 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 013299917X |
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, Third Edition, gives teachers and teacher candidates the tools they need to help all students work toward mastery of literacy and comprehension of content area texts. Practical, straightforward, and affordable, this guide is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom.
50 Strategies for Active Teaching
Title | 50 Strategies for Active Teaching PDF eBook |
Author | Andrea M. Guillaume |
Publisher | Pearson |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Activity programs in education |
ISBN | 9780132192729 |
Provides strategies for actively involving students in their own learning experience, including advice on tailoring teaching to particular learners, increasing participation rates in lessons, and increasing the probability that students will learn.
50 Literacy Strategies
Title | 50 Literacy Strategies PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Tompkins |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012-04-25 |
Genre | Language arts (Elementary) |
ISBN | 9780132944915 |
This new edition is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills. Everything you need to know to implement, adapt, and enrich each strategy is included.
Content Area Literacy
Title | Content Area Literacy PDF eBook |
Author | John Readence |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2019-07-09 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781524999865 |