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Teaching through text : reading and writing in content areas / Michael C. McKenna, Richard D. Robinson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Allyn and Bacon, 2005Edition: Fourth editionDescription: ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0205443281
  • 9780205443284
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.40711 22
LOC classification:
  • LB2395.3 .M35 2005
Contents:
1. The importance of literacy in content areas -- 2. Literacy processes -- 3. Getting to know your students, your materials, and your teaching -- 4. Teaching for diversity -- 5. Building prior knowledge -- 6. Introducing technical vocabulary -- 7. Making reading purposeful -- 8. Reading guides -- 9. Providing time to read : when, where, and how? -- 10. Effective questioning -- 11. Reinforcing and extending content knowledge -- 12. Study skills : encouraging independence in content literacy -- 13. Student attitudes : encouraging content literacy.
Review: "Bringing all the research up-to-date, this Fourth Edition of Teaching Through Text provides a broad range of techniques to enhance students' literacy development and learning across the curriculum. Authored by two of the most respected literacy researchers, this text focuses on describing, illustrating, and applying both teacher-directed and student-centered strategies for content area literacy in middle and secondary grades."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The importance of literacy in content areas -- 2. Literacy processes -- 3. Getting to know your students, your materials, and your teaching -- 4. Teaching for diversity -- 5. Building prior knowledge -- 6. Introducing technical vocabulary -- 7. Making reading purposeful -- 8. Reading guides -- 9. Providing time to read : when, where, and how? -- 10. Effective questioning -- 11. Reinforcing and extending content knowledge -- 12. Study skills : encouraging independence in content literacy -- 13. Student attitudes : encouraging content literacy.

"Bringing all the research up-to-date, this Fourth Edition of Teaching Through Text provides a broad range of techniques to enhance students' literacy development and learning across the curriculum. Authored by two of the most respected literacy researchers, this text focuses on describing, illustrating, and applying both teacher-directed and student-centered strategies for content area literacy in middle and secondary grades."--BOOK JACKET.

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