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 Create
a learning team to study the book Strategic
Reading in the Content Areas: Practical Applications for
Creating a Thinking Environment. Learning teams—also
known as study teams, book study groups, or learning communities—select
a topic of interest to study. Group members meet for 45 minutes
to one hour to read and discuss the selected topic. The learning
team process is an effective form of staff development, and
members frequently receive staff development or college credit.
Strategic Reading in the Content Areas is written
in a learning team format. Each chapter or section outlines
process questions and strategies to focus team members' reading
and discussion. All strategies are explained in detail with
examples in the book Strategies
to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners.
Facilitator Handbook: Learning Team Guide for Strategic
Reading in the Content Areas, consisting of 12 sessions,
has been developed to assist the successful implementation
of learning teams. Research-based outcomes for the learning
team process are:
- Develop strategic readers in all content areas
- Engage in practices that shift the learning process from
teacher-directed to student-directed
- Examine information and practice strategies for teaching
reading in your content area
- Engage in reflective practice and participate as a member
of a learning team
The handbook is available free with the purchase of both books Strategic
Reading in the Content Areas: Practical Applications for Creating
a Thinking Environment and Strategies to Engage the
Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners for each
team member. If you are interested in the offer, please
fill out and submit the request form below.
Preview information from Session 1 in Facilitator
Handbook: Learning Team Guide for Strategic Reading in
the Content Areas (PDF file).
To receive a free copy of the facilitator handbook you must
include the number of participants in your Learning Team.
Each of the participants of the group needs to have a copy
of Strategic Reading in the Content Areas and Strategies
to Engage the Mind of the Learner.
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Take this opportunity to preview a new
textbook for your course.
The Literacy and Learning Trilogy by Rachel Billmeyer provides
current research, practical information, and innovative strategies
for teaching reading in all content areas. The Trilogy titles are:
Testimonial:
At Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton,
New Jersey, all undergraduate music education majors are required
to focus on reading in the content areas. To meet this requirement,
all students purchased a copy of Rachel Billmeyer's book Strategies
to Engage the Mind of the Learner. They were assigned to write
a music lesson, integrating at least 8 strategies into the lesson,
such that it would not compromise the integrity of the musical
concept taught in the lesson. Lessons were spectacular. Students
found ways to focus their lessons on musical concepts integrating
reading strategies into the sequence of instruction. As a department,
we have decided to require that all music lessons written in our
music methods classes align to the strategies in your book as well.
—Professor Frank Abrahams, Ed. D.
Chair of Music Education Department
Rider University, Princeton, New Jersey
Complimentary Book Offer
If you are a college or university faculty member, Rachel & Associates
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Please complete the form below so we may be able to assist you
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Thank you, Rachel Billmeyer
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