Textbooks and the Students Who Can't Read Them: A Guide for the Teaching of Content (Cognitive Strategy Training Series) - Softcover

Ciborowski, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0914797573 ISBN 13: 9780914797579

Publisher: Brookline Books,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

Classroom teachers are faced with an immediate dilemma: how to engage their students in the content of teaching and inspire them to study, when so many lack the skills to read and easily understand the content. It has also become clear that assigning readings, lecturing, and then asking questions is an ineffective way to teach them.

This book proposes how to involve low readers more effectively in textbook learning. It presents instructional techniques to improve students' willingness to work in mainstream textbooks--particularly those students with low reading skills. These techniques optimize learning of new content by focusing on three phases: Teachers *prepare* the student for new learning (Before Reading), *help* them (During Reading), and then help them *integrate* the new learning into what they already know (After Reading). The net effect of providing these active "handles" for learning from text is to maintain the confidence and motivation of the low-reading student.

Includes a textbook evaluation form to help teachers assess how or whether to use a particular text with their students. An eminently practical book for the classroom teacher!

Edition details

• Publisher: Brookline Books,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0914797573
• ISBN 13: 9780914797579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102