Being literate in an academic discipline means more than simply being able to read and comprehend text; it means you can think, speak, and write as a historian, scientist, mathematician, or artist. Doug Buehl strips away the one-size-fits-all approach to content area literacy and presents a much-needed instructional model for disciplinary literacy, showing how to mentor middle and high school learners to become "academic insiders" who are college and career ready. This thoroughly revised second edition of Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines shows how to help students adjust their thinking to comprehend a range of complex texts that fall outside their reading comfort zones. This book --a natural companion to Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, which has been bolstering student comprehension for almost three decades--provides the following supports for teachers: Instructional tools that adapt generic literacy practices to discipline-specific variations Strategies for frontloading instruction to activate and build background knowledge New approaches for encouraging inquiry around disciplinary texts In-depth exploration of the role of argumentation in informational text Numerous examples from science, mathematics, history and social studies, English/language arts, and related arts to show you what vibrant learning looks like in various classroom settings Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines introduces teachers from all disciplines to new kinds of thinking and, ultimately, teaching that helps students achieve new levels of understanding.
How to Create and Sustain a School-Wide Culture of Deep Reading, Writing, and Thinking ReLeah Cossett Lent, Marsha McCracken Voigt ... Diving deep into nonfiction, grades 6–12: Transferable tools for reading ANY nonfiction text.
"Reading Across the Disciplines" improves one's reading and thinking skills through brief skill instruction and extensive practice structured around readings in various academic disciplines. The book is organized into three parts.
Drawing on research in human cognition, reading development, and discipline-specific pedagogies, Heather Lattimer provides practical, classroom-tested approaches to helping students access and critically respond to content-based texts.
Consider the opening lines of Robert Frost's iconic poem “The Road Not Taken”: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” How might one's interpretation of the poem change if Frost had used the word split or separated instead of diverged in ...
This book will help educators rethink their expectations of and practices for developing the literacy skills of Black boys in the elementary school classroom.
In this second edition of Building Academic Language, Jeff Zwiers successfully builds the connections between the Common Core State Standards and academic language.
"From leading authorities in both adolescent literacy and content-area teaching, this book addresses the particular challenges of literacy learning in each of the major academic disciplines.
Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applicationsfocuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields.
Fearn, L., & Farnan, N. (2001). Interactions: Teaching writing and the language arts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2014). Better learning through structured teaching: A framework for the gradual release of ...
The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a highly authoritative, multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and ...