COMING JULY 30, 2010!
Strategic Reading in the Content Areas: Practical Applications for Creating a Thinking Environment, Second Edition
This book, containing 60% new information, outlines strategies and practical information all classroom teachers can use to support K-12 students in becoming strategic readers.
Overview
Chapter 1 Introduction: Highlights the rationale for developing strategic readers.
Chapter 2 Principles of Learning: Outlines eight principles and explains their connection to becoming a strategic learner and reader.
Chapter 3 Developing Strategic Readers: Defines a strategic reader and elucidates a framework for creating readers in all content areas.
Chapter 4 Thinking about Your Thinking: Provides ways to help students become metacognitive readers through questioning, talking, and writing.
Chapter 5 Interactive Reading Ingredients: Explores three key ideas.
- Context refers to the situation in which reading occurs. The 2nd edition incorporates ideas for full-inclusion classrooms and identifies ways teachers can alter the context to improve student learning.
- Narrative Text reveals classroom-shaking ideas for promoting authentic literacy and provides a plethora of examples that motivate and inspire students to read more and to love reading long after they leave our classrooms (and even raise test scores).
- Vocabulary Practices to Develop Strategic Readers begins with a thorough synthesis of the current research and a comprehensive approach for promoting vocabulary growth, including K-12 examples and strategies.
Chapters 6 and 7 Voices from the Classroom: Explains new research and strategy examples for increasing reading in 15 content areas. Two new sections included are: Strategic Reading and the 21st Century Reader and Strategic Reading in Career and Technical Education. In recognition of the diversity of learners within the general classroom, a section entitled Special Considerations for Developing Readers (Response to Intervention) has been added to the core content areas in this edition.
Chapter 8 Three Essential Reading Components: Presents new and compelling information with examples for reading aloud, sustained silent reading, and family literacy practices.
Chapter 9 Creating a Literate Environment through Children's Literature: Offers and updates an annotated bibliography of over 250 young adult and children's literature selections.
Research indicates that when adults model the importance of reading, student reading increases. With this in mind, Strategic Reading in the Content Areas, 2nd Edition incorporates a learning team format. It is hoped that teachers and administrators working as a professional learning community will read, study, and implement ideas for developing strategic readers.
Order your new edition today; prepare for the new school year by previewing the book this summer. Consider using this resource and the learning team pages included for book study during PLC time. For ordering information see our online store or contact Julie at Printco Graphics 1-888-593-1080.
