Developing Content Area Literacy

40 Strategies for Middle and Secondary Classrooms

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

• Each strategy has been updated to reflect the new 21st Century Literacy and the Common Core State Standards
• New strategies titled Blogging Academic Vocabulary, Apps: Targeting Fluency, Annotation, Digital Pattern Folders, and Glogster: Building Background Knowledge give readers step by step procedures, differentiating Instruction for striving readers, ways to meet the needs of English language learners, and applications to be used in the classroom
•  A new section featuring the essential strategies for teaching close reading provides current research and resources, a solid framework, and strategy for assessing the development of close reading
• Each section includes a heading on helping English Language Learners (ELLs) use academic discourse

KEY FEATURES:

• Specific approaches to differentiating instruction for striving or struggling readers and writers as well as English language learners are included
• Easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures for each strategy are organized around “before,” “during,” and “after” reading and writing instruction
• New and innovative ways to implement technology in the classroom are included along with coverage of media and digital literacies.