Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning for College and Career Readiness, Pearson Etext with Loose-Leaf Version -- Access Card Package

McLaughlin, Maureen

ISBN 10: 0133830950 ISBN 13: 9780133830958

Publisher: Pearson, 2014

Synopsis

Gives future and in-service grade 6 - 12 teachers a unique, Common Core-based, student-centered look at content area reading and how to use innovative features to help students make connections between what they read and how they apply it in the classroom,

KEY TOPICS:

Teaching in the 21^st Century

Teaching and Learning in an Age of Multiple Literacies

The Common Core State Standards: Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines

Comprehending Content Area Text

Using Comprehension Strategies to Guide Thinking

Using Comprehension Strategies to Extend Thinking

Teaching Vocabulary in the Content Areas

Organizing for Teaching and Learning

Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

Writing in the Content Areas

Using Technology in the Content Areas

Inquiry: Key to Critical and Creative Thinking in the Content Areas

Poetry, Drama, Music, and Art: Alternative representations of Thinking

Course-based Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting

Meeting Challenges and Continuing to Learn through Professional Development

MARKET: For future and in-service grade six through 12 teachers

About this title

About the Author

Maureen McLaughlin is department chair and professor of reading education at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She earned her doctorate at Boston University in reading and language development. Prior to her tenure at the University, Maureen spent fifteen years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and department chair in a public school system.

Maureen served as the 2013 - 2014 President of the International Reading Association and was a member of IRA's Board of Directors from 2005-2008. During her time on the Board, Maureen was liaison to a variety of committees, including those focused on Bylaws, Adolescent Literacy, and the Common Core State Standards. She also contributed to a variety of documents and position statements, including the Board of Directors' Code of Conduct and the Conflict of Interest Statement. From 1999 - 2004, Maureen was a volunteer professor in Estonia for the Association's Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) Project.

Maureen has been a member of several review boards, including those of The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. She has also published numerous chapters and journal articles focused on critical literacy, reading comprehension, and the Common Core State Standards.

From the Back Cover

This comprehensive resource helps future and in-service grade 6 - 12 teachers get a unique, Common Core-based, student-centered look at content area reading. Using innovative features to help students make connections between what they read and how they apply it in the classroom, the book translates theory into practice through a wide range of innovative instructional approaches. The teaching ideas are initially taught using explicit instruction to scaffold student learning, and student examples from a variety of disciplines are featured throughout the text, along with a variety of readily available teaching resources.

With a central theme of multiple literacies and their effects on today's teachers and classrooms, the book emphasizes today's need to be able to reading and write and also to understand a variety of disciplines, navigate a myriad of information sources, examine the author's intent, and comprehend beyond the printed pages.

Features new to this edition include:

• An entirely new chapter on the Common Core emphasizes both the College and Career Readiness Standards and the Common Core State Standards and introduces "rich instructional tasks."
• A new "Making Connections to the Common Core" feature appears throughout the text.
• Updated theoretical information, revised websites, and numerous new student examples have been integrated.
• The Appendixes have been revitalized to include a variety of new graphic organizers that focus on using multi-modal text and recognizing and creating text structures
• New examples of complete student projects have been added to the Appendices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0133830950
• ISBN 13: 9780133830958
• Binding: Loose Leaf
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 387