Teaching Content Reading Writing - Hardcover

RUDDELL

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9780205265633: Teaching Content Reading Writing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205265634 ISBN 13: 9780205265633

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1996

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This book presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. Its major focus is classroom instruction which teaches content knowledge and supports students' literacy abilities in the content areas. It also gives teachers sound, theory-based instructional strategies for increasing their teaching effectiveness and developing student's literacy/learning abilities.Current topics discussed include: cooperative learning; portfolio assessment; reading and writing across the curriculum; thematic instruction and learned instruction across subject areas; developing lifelong readers and writers; second language learning; giftedness; and gender differences. Throughout this comprehensive book, attention is given to issues of cultural and language diversity and the changing needs of middle school and secondary school populations.

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Effective Strategies for Promoting Literacy Across the Curriculum This Third Edition of Teaching Content Reading and Writing not only equips students with a collection of classroom–tested strategies for promoting literacy across the curriculum, it also offers WebCT an on–line course management system that organizes instructional material and allows for new ways of delivering information. Now available with WebCT! A Wiley WebCT course for this book will be available including the following:

Sample course syllabus
Overview of chapter topics
Teaching suggestions for presentation of chapter materials
Reading assignments and additional resources
Sample overheads and handouts
Discussion questions
Relevant Web links
Suggestions for infusing educational technology into the course
and much more

Visit www.wiley.com/college/solutions for more information about WebCT!

About the Author:

Martha Ruddell is Professor of Education and a member of the Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education department at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In addition to this text, Dr. Ruddell is the co–editor of Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, and has published numerous articles for professional journals, including Reading Online. Dr. Ruddell is Past President of the National Reading Conference, and in 1996 she was elected to membership in the California Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame.

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