Content Area Literacy
Interactive Teaching for Active Learning
Wiley (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 28. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-471-36561-7 (ISBN)
Description
The Third Edition of this well respected text introduces readers to the why and how of promoting basic and higher-order literacy. It does so in the context of the importance of reading and thinking as a collateral part of specific subject instruction in an increasingly interconnected local and global environment. Conveyed in a clear and comprehensive manner, the ideas and methods presented reflect nearly a century of progress and the continuing evolution into this age of local and worldwide telecomputing
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 154 mm
Weight
539 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-36561-7 (9780471365617)
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Content
FOUNDATIONS OF CONTENT AREA LITERACY; Why and What Teachers Should Know about Content Literacy; Concepts and Terminology to Help You Get Started; Elements and Frameworks for Interactive Instruction in Content Area Reading and Writing; READING AND LEARNING FROM TEXT; Methods for Prereading Schema Activation; Methods for Guiding Silent Reading; Methods for Postreading Schema Building; Methods for Vocabulary and Concept Development; HIGHER-ORDER LITERACY AND ASSESSMENT IN THE DISCIPLINES; Critical-Constructive Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Telecomputing; Interactive Assessment for Active Self-Monitoring; Reading, Learning, and Remembering - Study Methods and MindTools; ISSUES IN LITERACY APPLICATIONS, LEADERSHIP, AND FUTURES; Discipline-Specific Applications of the Content Area Literacy Technology; Literacy Support for Special-Needs Students in the Content Classroom; Literacy Leadership and Content Area Programming; Multiple Literacies in the Twenty-first Century - Interdisciplinarity, Entrepreneurism, and Other Mooga-Mooga; Appendices; References; Index