Prereading Activities for Content Area Reading and Learning - Softcover

Moore, David W.; Readence, John E.; Rickelman, Robert J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872072614 ISBN 13: 9780872072619

Publisher: International Reading Association, 2000

Synopsis

How do you prepare students for the unfamiliar concepts, new terms, and unusual writing styles they will encounter during their study of subjects such as biology, history, or vocational arts? This book, an update to the bestselling second edition, offers you practical solutions to maximize adolescent students' learning in the content classroom. You'll find activities on asking and answering questions before reading, forecasting passages, understanding vocabulary, graphically representing information, and writing before reading. The book also provides updated research findings about prereading activities, and contains a new chapter that addresses the nuances of selecting, combining, and using prereading activities across lessons and units. The wealth of strategies and expanded reference list offered in this book will help you make printed materials in all content areas understandable and interesting to your students.

About this title

About the Author

John E. Readence is a professor of education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. David W. Moore is a professor of education at Arizona State University West, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Robert J. Rickelman is an associate professor of reading education at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

From the Back Cover

Reading materials used during the study of subjects such as biology, history, or vocational arts often contain unfamiliar concepts, strange terms, and unusual writing styles. Research has informed educators about the value of preparing students for reading in the content areas, but how do teachers begin the complicated task of planning effective prereading activities that maximize their students' learning?

Prereading Activitites for Content Area Reading and Learning, Third Edition, provides practical activities that promote the learning of adolescents in their daily work in the content classrooms. This edition differs from the second edition in two significant ways. First, the authors have updated material to reflect the most recent information that has been revealed about prereading activities. Second, the book concludes with a new chapter that addresses the nuances of selecting, combining, and using prereading activities across lessons and units. Other chapters offer valuable strategies for asking and answering questions before reading, forecasting passages, understanding vocabulary, graphically representing information, and writing before reading.

The wealth of strategies and the expanded reference list offered in this book will help teachers make printed materials in all content areas understandable and interesting to students.

Edition details

• Publisher: International Reading Association
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872072614
• ISBN 13: 9780872072619
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 128