Content Area Literacy: A Framework for Reading-Based Instruction - Hardcover

Manzo, Ula C.; Manzo, Anthony V.; Thomas, Matthew M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470129093 ISBN 13: 9780470129098

Publisher: Wiley, 2009

Synopsis

Content Area Literacy introduces teachers to the reasons for and means of promoting basic and higher-order literacy across the disciplines. The fifth edition has been updated to reflect new research, methods, data, and national trends relative to the field. It includes new aids that offer guidelines for reading actively, highlighting important material, and making personal marginal notes. Key standards are also integrated throughout the methods chapters and an appendix of the Standards of 6-8 major Professional Associations has been added. Teachers will gain a strong understanding of practical and user-friendly methods.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Promote comprehension...

Help students read to learn, not just learn to read.

The Fourth Edition of this well–respected text introduces teachers–to–be and practicing teachers to the reasons for and means of promoting basic and higher–order literacy across the disciplines. The authors discuss content area literacy in the context of promoting reading and thinking as an integrated part of specific subject instruction. Throughout, the text engages teachers in thinking critically, constructively, practically, and professionally about the art and science of teaching and literacy development.

Now updated and revised, this Fourth Edition features increased attention to the needs of ESL/ELL students, updated coverage on the role of technology in content area learning, and new material on emergent content area literacy.

Highlights

• Coverage that spans specific subject instruction to school–wide content
  area literacy programming.
• Methods for pre–reading, si lent reading, and post–reading skills, helping students into, through, and beyond their reading and learning assignments.
• Instruction on validated means of improving reading comprehension in accord with the “scientifically based reading research” called for by No Child Left Behind and the National Institute for Literacy.
• Intelligent, engaging, and intellectually robust discussions of important
  educational and professional issues.
• Practical and user–friendly teaching methods.

About the Author

Anthony V. Manzo is a very visible and respected researcher and scholar in education. Sometimes spoken of as "the person who discovered the 'cure' for comprehension deficits," Manzo pioneered the concepts of "mental modeling" and "reciprocal teaching"- two of the most generative and enduring ideas in pedagogy in the 20th century. He has written several books and many juried articles. Tony has also created several teacher-friendly instruments to aid in the assessment of thinking, reader styles, and social-emotional development. In 1993 he was granted the International Reading Association's Wm. S. Gray Citation of Merit, its highest award for lifetime creative research and problem-solving in the field.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0470129093
• ISBN 13: 9780470129098
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 400