Section 1: Teaching and Learning through Text         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         Section 2: Prereading Strategies        5    Building Prior Knowledge        6    Introducing Technical Vocabulary                 Section 3: Strategies for Guided Reading        7    Making Reading Purposeful              8    Reading Guides     9    Providing Time to Read: When, Where, and How?           Section 4: Postreading Strategies       10  Questioning and Discussion         11  Reinforcing and Extending Content Knowledge   Section 5: More Ways to Facilitate Learning through Text     12  Study Skills: Encouraging Independence in Content Literacy      13  Student Attitudes: Encouraging Content Literacy            

Pre-service and in-service middle and secondary school teachers get a core set of instructional techniques in this evidence-based, practical resource designed to help them incorporate reading-related approaches into their content classroom. The approaches are easy to follow, practical, effective, feature a strong empirical base and reflect the latest thinking in the field.   This new edition is an even more valuable resource for learning about content literacy through its up-to-date technology, emphasis on teaching literacy skills to second language learners, practical approach to applying concepts and techniques in actual classrooms, many expanded discussions, new examples, and much more.   Included are additional writing applications and web resources, new examples making the important concepts refreshingly clear, updated references, a series of 13 podcasts available online introducing the content of each chapter, and much more.   Also from authors Michael D. McKenna & Richard D. Robinson: 0132316412 - Issues and Trends in Literacy Education, 5/e - c2012

This new edition is an even more valuable resource for learning about content literacy through its up-to-date technology, emphasis on teaching literacy skills to second language learners, practical approach to applying concepts and techniques in actual classrooms, many expanded discussions, new examples, and much more.   Students and teachers see how to apply the most up-to-date technology in content literacy education through the presentation of today’s latest developments, which appear throughout the book.   Readers see how to effectively teach literacy skills to second language learners through the presentation of the latest literacy knowledge and through a recurring feature called “Assisting English Learners,” which complements the chapter content.   Students see how to apply literacy techniques and concepts in actual classrooms through the book’s use of current applications of literacy instruction–current textbooks, technology, and more.   Students get a solid foundation for effectively teaching content reading through the book’s literacy philosophy and definition of the reading process.   Extended discussions included throughout the book make this edition an even more valuable resource for learning about content literacy. Among the discussions are: disciplinary literacy and its relationship to content literacy the Common Core Standards and their implications for content literacy instruction the Lexile Framework and its usefulness in content literacy instruction approaches such as Cognitive Reasoning   Also included are: additional writing applications additional web resources new examples illustrating salient points made in the text completely updated references a discussion of academic vocabulary and its relationship to content and general vocabulary a series of 13 podcasts available online introducing the content of each chapter