(Re)Imagining Content-Area Literacy Instruction - Softcover

Roni Jo Draper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080775126X ISBN 13: 9780807751268

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2010

Synopsis

Today's teachers need to prepare students for a world that places increasingly higher literacy demands on its citizens. In this timely book, the authors explore content-area literacy and instruction in English, music, science, mathematics, social studies, visual arts, technology, and theatre. Each of the chapters has been written by teacher educators who are experts in their discipline. Their key recommendations reflect the aims and instructional frameworks unique to content-area learning. This resource focuses on how literacy specialists and content-area educators can combine their talents to teach all readers and writers in the middle and secondary school classroom. The text features vignettes from classroom practice with visuals to demonstrate, for example, how we read a painting or hear the discourse of a song. Today's teachers need to prepare students for a world that places increasingly higher literacy demands on its citizens. In this timely book, the authors explore content-area literacy and instruction in English, music, science, mathematics, social studies, visual arts, technology, and theatre. Each of the chapters has been written by teacher educators who are experts in their discipline. Their key recommendations reflect the aims and instructional frameworks unique to content-area learning. This resource focuses on how literacy specialists and content-area educators can combine their talents to teach all readers and writers in the middle and secondary school classroom. The text features vignettes from classroom practice with visuals to demonstrate, for example, how we read a painting or hear the discourse of a song.

About this title

About the Author

Tom Bean is one of Arizona's pre-eminent landscape photographers. He began taking pictures to illustrate his presentations as a seasonal park ranger in Alaska and the West, and has worked extensively on interpretation of Southwest parks and wildlands as well as with Native tribes. He is a frequent contributor to Arizona Highways and is widely published in other magazines, picture books, and textbooks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080775126X
• ISBN 13: 9780807751268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Roni Jo Draper, Paul Broomhead, Amy Petersen Jensen, Jeffrey D. Nokes, Daniel Siebert