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Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

5 reviews
Doug Buehl

International Reading Association, 2001

Buy this book
This book is one of the best if you are looking to find strategies for teaching. I strongly recommend it to all teachers.

Elementary Education: Content Area Exercises (Praxis Study Guides)

7 reviews
Educational Testing Service

Ets/Educational Testing Service, 2004

study guide
This was useful in my preparation for the test. I passed the first time.

Tools for Teaching Content Literacy

5 reviews
Janet Allen

Stenhouse Publishers, 2004

Easy to Use Guide for Teachers
This small book, in a flipchart format, provides 33 strategies for teachers to use to improve students' content area reading. Directions are succint and clear. The strategies listed are invaluable in helping the teacher create varied activities geared towards improving students' reading comprehension. I use this flipchart every week when preparing my lessons.

Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12

16 reviews
Cris Tovani

Stenhouse Publishers, 2004

Great Book for Teachers
We are all reading teachers. We must teach the students to read so they will be able to succeed in all subjects. This book has strategies for all teachers. The author makes some good points when describing an encounter with an industrial arts teacher who said, "students don't have to read in my class." This book will show you how to make connections in your subject area to reading. If ...

Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (9th Edition)
Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. Vacca

Allyn & Bacon, 2007

With the underlying belief that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, this respected text is designed to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum. Content Area Reading.

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work (2nd Edition)
Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey

Prentice Hall, 2007

This book helps teachers to infuse literacy instruction into all content areas. The authors present a rich panoply of engaging instructional strategies that research has shown to be effective for improving reading and writing in middle and secondary school students. After discussing common questions asked by content area teachers, a full chapter is devoted to each of eight strategies?anticipatory activities, read-alouds/shared reading, ...

Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide
Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman, ...

Heinemann, 2007

There are three truths about teaching writing, one that's widely known, one that isn't, and one that will change your teaching forever: the ability to write is essential for students in every subject area writing is the most powerful and efficient tool that teachers have for helping students connect with content and deepen their understanding of it every teacher, including you, is ready to coach middle and secondary writers successfully ...

Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading

9 reviews
Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman

Heinemann, 2004

Help for Content Area Teachers
If you worry that your students "just aren't getting the text," here is help for you. This book is an easy guide for content area teachers to use to help when teaching their subjects. Strategies for before, during and after reading are given. There are ideas to help you find other sources of information to supplement the text and give students more choices in their learning. This is an ...

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, ...

Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry (Theory and Practice)

5 reviews
Jeffrey Wilhelm

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007

Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry
I am astonished by what I am learning reading this book. Being a teacher, I now have many more pathways to engage my students and help them comprehend the information they will sorely need to succeed in their future.

Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Content Areas
Ruth Culham, Amanda Wheeler

Teaching Resources, 2004

Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom Prompts that provide all the elements students need to start writing: a role, audience, format, topic and strong verb (R.A.F.T.S). 80 pages each. Grades 3 and up. Content Areas

Preparing for the Texas PreK-4 Teacher Certification: A Guide to the Comprehensive TExES Content Areas Exam

14 reviews
Janice L. Nath, John Ramsey

Allyn & Bacon, 2003

This book is a must!
This is an excellent, thorough guide to help you prepare for the EC-4 TExES. I looked at several books, but felt like this one had the best information. Though there is not a full practice test, there are practice questions throughout, which are just as (if not more)helpful. Each answer is explained fully (not only why answer A is correct, but why B, C, and D are incorrect). Several professors ...

Reading and Learning in Content Areas

3 reviews
Randall J. Ryder, Michael F. Graves

Wiley, 2002

Reading and Learning in the Content Areas 2nd edition
Reviewer: A reader from Appleton, Wisconsin As an Elementary Reading Specialist, I use Reading and Learning in Content Areas to plan my reading program. I like the organization and sequential way lessons are presented in the chapters. I use Reading and Learning in Content Areas to collaborate with teachers to plan for student instruction. As we read and share the ideas it ...

Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms (5th Edition)
Donna E. Alvermann, Stephen F. Phelps, ...

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

A continuing best-seller, Content Area Reading and Literacy, Fifth Edition, equips preservice and inservice teachers to teach content area literacy in an era of high accountability and provides in-depth and integrated attention to the needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. In a time when high-stakes testing, standards, and scientifically based reading research are driving the field, Alvermann, Phelps and Ridgeway ...

Content Area Reading and Learning: Instructional Strategies

1 review

Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

Excellent overview of theory and practice
Reading this book diligently from cover to cover is the equivalent of taking a graduate level reading course. The individual articles include a practical grounding in reading theory as well as a thorough study of the role reading and writing play in the content areas at the junior high or secondary levels. As a secondary teacher, I often find that texts promise relevancy for older teenagers, ...

Reading to Learn in the Content Areas

5 reviews
Judy S. Richardson, Raymond F. Morgan, ...

Wadsworth Publishing, 2008

Reading to Learn in the Content Areas (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac )
Arrived on time and in good condition.

Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who? 2nd Edition

1 review
Rachel Billmeyer, Mary Lee Barton

Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory, 1998

Good strategies
This book provides several good strategies that can be used to teach reading. The back of the book literally has step-by-step instructions for using the strategy as well as a worksheet that can easily be copied and distributed. The beginning of the book is pretty repetitive of what you would hear/guess you would hear from a teaching reading class. The strategies, however, are great.

The Forest AND the Trees: Helping Readers Identify Important Details in Texts and Tests
Emily Kissner

Heinemann, 2008

It pays to be detail-oriented. Emily Kissner shows why in The Forest AND the Trees . She proves that in any content area, focusing readers on details can help you achieve important classroom goals, such as: boosting classroom-wide comprehension levels building students' understanding of genres helping students craft specific responses to texts supporting success on state-mandated tests. The Forest AND the Trees begins with ...

Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science and Math (Grades 3 & Up)

1 review
Laura Robb

Teaching Resources, 2003

Excellent Methods Resource
This is a very reader-friendly book. It's easy style and appealing format will make it a handy resource in the classroom. The material is very practical and especially valuable to a new teacher.

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