Content Area Literacy: Interactive Teaching for Active Learning - Softcover

Manzo, Anthony V.; Manzo, Ula Casale; Estes, Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471365610 ISBN 13: 9780471365617

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

The Third Edition of this well respected text introduces readers to the why and how of promoting basic and higher–order literacy. It does so in the context of the importance of reading and thinking as a collateral part of specific subject instruction in an increasingly interconnected local and global environment. Conveyed in a clear and comprehensive manner, the ideas and methods presented reflect nearly a century of progress and the continuing evolution into this age of local and worldwide telecomputing

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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 this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0471365610
• ISBN 13: 9780471365617
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464