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 21
st
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.
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