Partnering for Content Literacy: PRC2 in Action. Developing Academic Language for All Learners - Softcover

Ogle, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132458748 ISBN 13: 9780132458740

Publisher: Pearson, 2010

Synopsis

Teachers learn how to successfully develop students’ interests in and strategies for reading and comprehending informational texts that support content learning.

 

Written by a team of teachers, literacy leaders, and university project members, this book tackles the challenges students have with language learning and content area reading. Partnering for Content Literacy:  PRC2 in Action was based around teacher concerns that students floundered when confronted with difficult textbooks and the need to use academic vocabulary and language. Teachers and literacy leaders wanted to develop ways to insure these students could be successful in learning. What evolved is a practical and powerful set of assessments and instructional practices focused on partners reading short books and articles together in a process called Partner Reading and Content, Too (PRC2). This book provides ideas about how to create a rich program in informational reading, including descriptions of specific assessments and ways to modify them for teachers’ own students.

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About the Author

Donna Ogle is Professor of Education at National-Louis University in Chicago, Illinois, and is actively involved in staff development projects work in the Chicago Public Schools, the Reading Leadership Institute, and in other American school districts. Dr. Ogle serves as a literacy consultant internationally, including Critical Thinking International and as a part of the editorial review boards of Lectura y Vida and the Thinking Classroom. She recently finished her term as president of the International Reading Association (IRA). Donna also conducts research on visual literacy and content comprehension, having developed both the K-W-L and PRC2 (partner reading in content, too). She is the author of many books, book chapters, and professional articles and conducts national and international workshops on teaching for comprehension and higher order thinking, as well as using the arts in teaching. Her K-W-L procedure has become so renowned that teachers use it all over the world.

From the Back Cover

Donna Ogle

Partnering for Content Literacy: PRC2 in Action.

Developing Academic Language for All Learners

 

Learn how to successfully develop your students’ interests in and strategies for reading and comprehending informational books that support content learning.

 

Written by a team of teachers, literacy leaders, and university project members, this book tackles the challenges students have with language learning and content area reading. Partnering for Content Literacy:  PRC2 in Action was based around teacher concerns that students floundered when confronted with difficult textbooks and the need to use academic vocabulary and language. Teachers and literacy leaders wanted to develop ways to insure these students could be successful in learning. What evolved is a practical and powerful set of assessments and instructional practices focused on partners reading short books and articles together in a process called Partner Reading and Content, Too (PRC2).

 

 "Dr. Ogle and the team of authors provide strong support and research for including partnerships at a range of levels to improve the quality of teaching and learning in urban schools. This project inspired me to want to replicate it in our district. " Ellen Fogelberg, Evanston School District 65, Evanston, Illinois

 

"The ideas are practical and powerful. " Kathleen L Sullivan, Omaha Public Schools, Omaha, Nebraska 

 

Donna Ogle is Professor of Education at National-Louis University in Chicago, Illinois, and is actively involved in staff development projects work in the Chicago Public Schools, the Reading Leadership Institute, and in other American school districts. Dr. Ogle serves as a literacy consultant internationally, including Critical Thinking International and as a part of the editorial review boards of Lectura y Vida and the Thinking Classroom. She recently finished her term as president of the International Reading Association (IRA).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132458748
• ISBN 13: 9780132458740
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312