Through this strategy-driven, theory-based text, content-area teachers gain a thorough understanding of the fundamental role that reading and writing play in content-area learning. Unique to this text is the attention paid to helping teachers understand how the high school cultures students belong to affect their view of literacy and learning. The author effectively guides readers to ways they can identify and address school cultures and make literacy in content learning, relevant to students. The author offers step-by-step approaches to gauge student literacy, build vocabulary, and implement instruction that improves comprehension, encourages critical reading, supports writing for learning, and facilitates collaboration for literacy development.
- ISBN10 0132298546
- ISBN13 9780132298544
- Publish Date 1 July 2007 (first published 16 April 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 480
- Language English