Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms: United States Edition - Hardcover

Alvermann, Donna E.; Phelps, Stephen F.; Gillis, Victoria R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137145527 ISBN 13: 9780137145522

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

A continuing best-seller, the Sixth Edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy 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.

 

This well-respected text has been lauded for its scope of topics and examples, its research-based information, and its accessible writing style. Written by trusted authorities in the field of adolescent literacy, Donna Alvermann, Stephen Phelps, and Victoria Ridgeway Gillis, the sixth edition includes up-to-date information on addressing the literacy needs of English learners and a culturally diverse student population.  Victoria Ridgeway Gillis has more than two decades of secondary school teaching experience, which brings added depth and credibility to each chapter.  This text also addresses new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies. 

 

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From the Back Cover

In an era of high accountability, the sixth edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy  provides in-depth and integrated attention to the needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds, especially the literacy needs of English learners. 

 

A continuing best-seller, this well-respected text has been lauded for its scope of topics and examples, its research-based information, and its accessible writing style.  This new edition also addresses new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies. 

 

Exciting changes in this edition include:

• Anticipation Guides at the beginning of each chapter provide a venue for pre-reading discussion, either in class or online. 
• A Literacy Coaches’ Corner box has been added to each chapter discussing issues related to working effectively with literacy coaches.
• Includes more classroom-tested and research-based teaching and learning strategies to use across the curriculum throughout the text.
• Focuses on the key differences among the disciplines with respect to vocabulary and comprehension.
• Provides a new overview ofliteracy-related difficulties encountered in different content areas, such as:
  • English/Language arts--problems are often related to the broad range of genres students must read, such as poetry, short stories, novels, literature, mysteries, or historical fiction.
  • Science and math--the density of the text can be problematic and students may have to handle  several different text structures and content structures.
  • Social studies--information can often be categorized as related to people, places, or events. 
• Takes into account the new 21st century literacies and the disciplinary literacies associated with vocabulary development and comprehension, particularly those known to cause difficulty in the different subject areas.
• Includes strategies for comprehending online.
• Emphasizesdifferentiated writing for different disciplines.
• A MyEducationLab interactive website (www.myeducationlab.com) created specifically to accompany this edition that includes videos, simulations, case studies, activities, practice tests, study plans, an e-book, and more to help prepare students for teaching careers.
  

  To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN:

  ISBN-13: 9780136101024

  ISBN-10: 013610102X

  To order this book WITHOUT MyEducationLab use either ISBN:

  ISBN-13: 9780137145522

  ISBN-10: 0137145527

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137145527
• ISBN 13: 9780137145522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 496