This online Content Area Reading course developed by Pearson Teacher Education and Development offers instructors a rich online course built around assignments and activities, classroom videos, and readings. Weekly assignments are focused on essential course concepts and provide well-structured and effective learning activities. Once students complete these assignments they are given opportunities to discuss and reflect upon what they have learned. Students are then led tomeaningful weekly activities that require them to apply what they have learned. Available for most course management systems, this course is customizable and can easily accommodate and adapt to instructors' own resources and materials. Basic Course Components Course Documents Online Student Manual Course Syllabus Course Reading Assignments from Leading Texts Rubrics Online Resources Bloom's Taxonomy Lesson Plan Template Microsoft Tutorials Weekly Assignments Learning Objectives Learning Log Reading Assignments Viewing Activities Theory Into Practice Exercises Discussion Board Questions Synthesize/Apply/Reflect Exercises Assignment Guidelines Additional Resources Content Area Reading Course Topics Literacy in the Content Areas Motivation Striving Readers Vocabulary Comprehension Writing to Learn Literacy Through Technology Assessing Literacy Progress Books Aligned to the Course Alvermann, D.E., Phelps, S.F., & Gillis, V.R. (2010)Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classroom (with MyEducationLab). (6th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN-10:013610102X Brozo, W. G. & Simpson, M.L. (2007) Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence. (5th ed.) Columbus, OH: Merrill. ISBN-10:0132286718 Conley, M.W. (2008) Content Area Literacy: Learners in Context . Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN-10:0205455980 McKenna, M . & Robinson, R.D. (2009) Teaching Through Text: Reading and Writing in the Content Areas . Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN-10:0132074729 McLaughlin, M. (2010) Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Multiple Literacies (with MyEducationLab). Boston, MA:Allyn & Bacon. ISBN-10:0136101313 Unrau, N. (2008). Content Area Reading and Writing: Fostering Literacies in Middle and High School Cultures. (2nd ed.) Columbus, OH: Merrill. ISBN-10:0132298546 Vacca. R.T & Vacca, J.L. (2008) Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum. (9th ed.) Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon. ISBN-10:0205532152
-- Long respected as the market-leading text in content area literacy, this book gives pre- and in-service teachers an ambitious, coherent, and workable exploration of content literacy to take into their classrooms to improve reading and ...
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This text addresses instructional issues and provides a wealth of classroom strategies to help all middle and secondary teachers effectively enable their students to develop both content concepts and strategies for continued learning.
This seventh edition includes up-to-date information to help teachers address the literacy needs of English learners in their classrooms and today's culturally diverse student population, while also addressing new frameworks for reading and ...
This edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy features three full chapters focusing on writing instruction, integrates culture and diversity throughout, and expands or reemphasizes important topics, such as life-long readers and ...
With three full chapters on reading comprehension (reflecting the before, during, after reading approach) and a separate chapter that explores multiple literacies, "Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning in an...
With this book, the authors support content-area and language arts teachers alike by pairing more than 75 short, kid-tested reproducible nonfiction texts with 33 simple, ready-to-go lessons that deepen comprehension and support effective ...
In this essential book from Routledge and AMLE, author Lori G. Wilfong describes ten best practices for content area literacy and how to implement them in the middle-level classroom.
This invaluable guide offers step-by-step, research-based strategies that will help you increase your students' reading comprehension, strengthen writing skills, and build vocabulary across content areas.
In D. Lapp, J. Flood, & N. Farnan (Eds.), Content area reading and learning: Instructional strategies (2nd ed., pp. 47–57). ... Matching books to readers: Using leveled books for guided reading, K–3. ... Gunning, T. G. (2003b).