Reading to Learn in the Content Areas - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534553117 ISBN 13: 9780534553111

Synopsis

With READING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS, Eighth Edition, future educators discover how they can teach students to use reading, discussion, and writing as vehicles for learning in any discipline. The book explores how the increased availability of computers, instructional software, social media, and Internet resources--as well as the rise of electronic literacy in general--have affected the ways children learn and create meaning from their world. The authors' unique lesson framework for instruction, PAR (Preparation/Assistance/Reflection), extends throughout the book. A reader-friendly presentation, balanced approach, strong research base, and inclusion of real-life examples from a variety of subject areas and grade levels have helped make this resource one of the most popular and effective books on the market.

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Review

1. Content Teachers and Content Literacy. 2. Assessment and Evaluation Issues. 3. Preparation for Learning. 4. Assistance in Learning. 5. Learning through Reflection. 6. Moving beyond the Traditional Textbook and Transmission Methods. 7. Technology in Today's Content Classrooms. 8. Study Skills in the Electronic Age. 9. Teaching Vocabulary. 10. Writing to Learn in the Content Areas. 11. Supporting Diverse Learners in Content Classrooms. 12. Teaching in the Affective Domain.

About the Author

Judy S. Richardson is Professor Emerita, Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University. She has experience teaching at the elementary, middle, high school, and adult levels. She has numerous articles published in noted reading journals. In addition to READING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS, Richardson is the author of READ IT ALOUD! USING LITERATURE IN THE SECONDARY CONTENT CLASSROOM, published by the International Reading Association (IRA), and AN ENGLISH TEACHER'S SURVIVAL GUIDE. Her chapter on the history of content area reading appears in the International Reading Association monograph as an essential history of current reading practices (2008). She received the Virginia Commonwealth University Award of Excellence in 2004 and the A. B. Herr Award for Distinguished Service in Reading in 2006 (College Reading Association). She is a Fulbright Scholar for 2008. Richardson is an authority on using technology in content reading instruction. She also is interested in the connections between reading education and English as a Second Language. She received and directed a $1 million (five-year) federal grant designed to improve classroom instruction for English Language Learners in the Richmond Metropolitan area. She has also worked through the International Reading Association (IRA) on a USAID-funded project for innovative secondary education in Macedonia.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534553117
• ISBN 13: 9780534553111
• Binding: Hardcover