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Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence (5th Edition)
William G. Brozo, Michele L. Simpson

Prentice Hall, 2006

Content Literacy for Today?s Adolescents, Fifth Edition, provides fresh, contemporary insights to help teachers develop adolescents' literacy skills within their respective content disciplines. Based on clearly defined, principled practice, the book discusses strategies for expanding comprehension, creating motivating learning contexts, developing vocabulary knowledge, using writing as a form of active learning, and more! Filled with ...

Supporting Content Area Literacy with Technology: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners
William G. Brozo, Kathleen Puckett

Allyn & Bacon, 2008

Readers, Teachers, and Learners: Expanding Literacy Across the Content Areas (4th Edition)

1 review
William G. Brozo, Michele L. Simpson

Merrill Prentice Hall, 2003

useful and detailed, but tedious and over-explained
Roughly summarized, Readers, Teachers, Learners is a useful book with well-chosen accounts of different techniques for introducing topics, activity types that help make information stick, making the most of writing, guiding reading and research well, etc. However, it's a bore to read; when laying down VERY BASIC important concepts, it drones on and on about the obvious. Approximately the same ...

Principled Practices for Adolescent Literacy
Elizabeth G. (EDT)/ Boyd, Fenice B./ Brozo, William G./ Hinchman, Kathleen A./ Moore, David W./ Alvermann, Donna E./ Anders, Patricia L. (EDT) Sturtevant

Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, 2005

50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent Literacy (Teaching Strategies Series)

1 review
Douglas Fisher, William G. Brozo, ...

Prentice Hall, 2006

Buy this too if you're buying Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work
I think this book is a great additional to a content area teacher's library, but is probably the second Doug Fisher book to read. After reading Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work I understand better where and when to use the easily described/pictured strategies and am confident that I can sell the importance of those activities to my middle schoolers. Strategies are 1-2 pages, ...

To Be a Boy, to Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Literacy

1 review
William G. Brozo

International Reading Association, 2002

Useful
This wasn't the information I needed for research, but the book contains many useful, feasible ideas for classroom practice.

Principled Practices for Adolescent Literacy: A Framework for Instruction and Policy

1 review
Elizabeth G. Sturtevant, Fenice B. Boyd, ...

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006

Very useful handbook for teachers
This book gives excellent ideas to those teachers who face the adolescence as early adulthood.