Content Area Reading and Literacy:Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms: United States Edition - Tapa dura

In an era of high accountability, the sixth edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy provides in-depth and integrated attention to the needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds, especially the literacy needs of English learners.

A continuing best-seller, this well-respected text has been lauded for its scope of topics and examples, its research-based information, and its accessible writing style. This new edition also addresses new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies.

Exciting changes in this edition include:

• Anticipation Guides at the beginning of each chapter provide a venue for pre-reading discussion, either in class or online.
• A Literacy Coaches’ Corner box has been added to each chapter discussing issues related to working effectively with literacy coaches.
• Includes more classroom-tested and research-based teaching and learning strategies to use across the curriculum throughout the text.
• Focuses on the key differences among the disciplines with respect to vocabulary and comprehension.
• Provides a new overview of literacy-related difficulties encountered in different content areas, such as:
  • English/Language arts--problems are often related to the broad range of genres students must read, such as poetry, short stories, novels, literature, mysteries, or historical fiction.
  • Science and math--the density of the text can be problematic and students may have to handle several different text structures and content structures.
  • Social studies--information can often be categorized as related to people, places, or events.
• Takes into account the new 21st century literacies and the disciplinary literacies associated with vocabulary development and comprehension, particularly those known to cause difficulty in the different subject areas.
• Includes strategies for comprehending online.
• Emphasizes differentiated writing for different disciplines.
• A MyEducationLab interactive website ( www.myeducationlab.com ) created specifically to accompany this edition that includes videos, simulations, case studies, activities, practice tests, study plans, an e-book, and more to help prepare students for teaching careers.
  

  To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN:

  ISBN-13: 9780136101024

  ISBN-10: 013610102X

  To order this book WITHOUT MyEducationLab use either ISBN:

  ISBN-13: 9780137145522

  ISBN-10: 0137145527