Content Area Literacy
Interactive Teaching for Active Learning
Wiley (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 15. January 1997
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-471-36556-3 (ISBN)
Description
Aimed at introducing teachers to methods of promoting basic literacy, this book concentrates on reading and thinking as an accompaniment to specific subject instruction, in an increasingly connected local and global environment.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 115 mm
Weight
397 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-36556-3 (9780471365563)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
INTERACTIVE TEACHING BEGINS WITH KNOWING STUDENTS.; Why and What Teachers Should Know About Content Literacy.; Foundations of Teaching and Learning.; Interactive Assessment for Active Self-Monitoring.; READING AND LEARNING FROM TEXT.; Guiding Learning from Text: Three-Phase Methods.; Prereading Methods: for Schema Activation and Instructional Modeling.; Guided Silent Reading Methods and Strategies.; Postreading Questioning and Cooperative Methods.; HIGHER-ORDER LITERACY IN THE DISCIPLINES.; Vocabulary, Language, and Concept Development Across the Disciplines.; Writing, Reading, Thinking and Telecomputing Across the Curriculum and the Globe.; Study Methods and Strategies: For Guided Reading, Learning, and Remembering.; REFERENCE INFORMATION IN CONTENT AREA LITERACY.; Discipline-Specific Problems, Contributions, and Applications.; Special Needs Students and Issues in Remediation and Diversity.; Schoolwide Content Area Literacy Programming and Professional Development.; Appendices.