Developing content area literacy : 40 strategies for middle and secondary classrooms

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Author:

Antonacci, Patricia.

ISBN:

9781412972833

Personal Author:

Antonacci, Patricia.

Publication Information:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2011.

Physical Description:

xxviii,287p. ; 28cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Sect I Academic vocabulary: developing vocabulary for learning in content areas 1. Semantic mapping: developing robust academic vocabularies -- 2. Vocabulary self-collection strategy (VSS): promoting word consciousness -- 3. Contextual redefinition: using clues as a word-learning strategy -- 4. Semantic feature analysis (SFA): comparing and contrasting features of words -- 5. List-Group-Label (L-G-L): developing conceptual knowledge of words -- Sect II Rading fluency: developing deep-reading fluency 6.Readers theatre: increasing fluency through student engagement with text -- 7. Paired reading: a collaborative approach for developing deep-reading fluency -- 8. Audiobooks: modeling and scaffolding reading fluency -- 9. Radio reading: an authenitic approach for developing reading fluency -- 10. Morphemic analysis: a useful resource for becoming a fluent reader-- Sect III Narrative text: developing comprehension for narrative text 11. Interactive think-alouds: collaborative interpretation of text -- 12. Inference strategy guide: facilitating reading between the lines -- 13. Imagination recreation: deepening understanding through creativity -- 14. Conflict dissection: analyzing relationships in text.

15. Jots and doodles: visualizing text to aid comprehension -- Sect IV Reading informal text: developing comprehension for informal text -- 16. Questioning the author (QtA): constructing meaning from the text -- 17. Text structure strategy: using graphic organizers to learn from information text -- 18. Connect to it: making personal, text, and world connections to text -- 19. Quick writes: integrating language for understanding text -- 20. Inquiry charts (I-charts): organizing information for learning from texts -- Sect V Media and digital literacies: developing comprehension for media and digital literacies 21. Think and check: contextualizing and corrobration online information -- 22. Digital storytelling: creating digital text -- 23. Wikibooks: collaborativeresearch projects -- 24. Podcasting: merging media for understanding -- 25. Book trailers: insights and discoveries about texts -- Sect VI Critical thinking: developing students' critical thinking skills -- Sect VII Writing informational text: developing writing in the content areas -- Sect VIII Independent learning: promoting strategies for independence in learning.

Abstract:

Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy is designed to help busy middle and secondary school teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students. Each of the 40 evidence based strategies is organized around 8 essential areas of literacy instruction: academic vocabulary, reading fluency, narrative text, informational text, media and digital literacies, informational writing, critical thinking, and independent learning. --Book Jacket.

Subject Term:

Content area reading -- United States.

Reading (Middle school) -- United States.

Reading (Secondary) -- United States.

Added Author:

O'Callaghan, Catherine M.

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Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas

Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy is designed to help busy middle school and secondary teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students. Each of the 40 evidence-based strategies is organized around 8 essential areas of literacy instruction: academic vocabulary, reading fluency, narrative text, informational text, media and digital literacies, informational writing, critical thinking, and independent learning.

Key Features

Specific approaches to differentiating instruction for striving or struggling readers and writers as well as English language learners are included. [b1] Easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures for each strategy are organized around "before," "during," and "after" reading and writing instruction. New and innovative ways to implement technology in the classroom are included along with coverage of media and digital literacies.