Content Area Literacy

This comprehensive, hands-on resource gives educators ready-to-use tools and techniques for helping today's diverse secondary school students develop the literacy skills they need to become more skillful with reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and performing in all content areas.
 
The first section of the book helps teachers confront the need to fully understand today's educational landscape, while the second section focuses on the specifics of how to go about planning and teaching, using principles of content area literacy. A unique final chapter pulls it all together by showing educators how to enlist students' cooperation while reaching out to parents and the community to support teaching and learning.
 
Here's what makes this new second edition unique:
 
·         Updated information on the policy, standards and assessment scene encompasses the new standards and reforms coming out of the Race to the Top program.
 
·         More specific examples about assessment, evaluation and grading (Chapters 6 and 11) help teachers deliver better assessments while dealing successfully with the challenges of evaluation and grading.
 
·         Up-to-date citations references and citations, including more recommended readings, provide more resources for student learning.
 
·         A new feature called Praxis Practice has been added to help beginning teachers prepare for the Praxis II test in reading across the curriculum.
 
·         NEW! Marginal A+RISE®Teaching Strategies alignwith relevant concepts in the main body of the text and give teachers quick, research-based strategies to get to the “how” of targeting their instruction and making content accessible for all students, including English language learners.
 
Professors Rave:

“This text presents a strong integration of theory, research and practice. It is the best on the market. My students will appreciate the writing style, abundant strategies, and current research. Teachers will appreciate the extra guidance in making accommodations for English learners and special needs learners. It is a wonderful addition to all content teachers' libraries.”

-- Terrell A. Young, Washington State University

 

“This textbook... provides good context to help readers of the book consider technology, popular culture, and English Language Learners. Its voice in the opening chapters is honest, sincere, and clear.”

-- Rebecca L. Godwin, Barton College

 

 

 

List of contents

Preface
 
Foreword
 
SECTION 1 Content Area Literacy: Promoting Learning for Today's Challenges
Chapter 1 Content Area Literacy: Helping All Adolescents Learn in New Times
Chapter 2 Adolescent Literacy, Diversity, and Teaching Today's Learners
Chapter 3 How to Pursue High Expectations for Teaching and Learning in an Era of Standards and Accountability
Chapter 4 Alternative Ways to Plan and Teach Lessons
 
SECTION 2 Content Area Literacy: Teaching Today's Learners
Chapter 5 Understanding and Using Texts
Chapter 6 Ongoing Assessment
Chapter 7 Activating Prior Knowledge and Increasing Motivation Before Reading
Chapter 8 Building Vocabulary Knowledge and Strategies
Chapter 9 Guiding Students during Reading
Chapter 10 Guiding Students' Critical Literacy
Chapter 11 Developing Content Area Writers
Chapter 12 Building Literacy and Community from Inside and Outside the Classroom
 
References
 
Index

About the author

Mark W. Conley, a professor in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Memphis, is a highly regarded academician, researcher, and author in the field of literacy. His cutting edge research efforts focus on the relationships between adolescent literacy and new demands for accountability, developing learning strategies in content area classrooms, and teaching beginning and practicing teachers how to implement learning strategies within their curricula. As an accomplished author, Dr. Conley has published several books and numerous articles on literacy assessment, content area literacy, and literacy policy, including Connecting Standards and Assessment through Literacy. With this publication of Content Area Literacy: Learners in Context, Dr. Conley connects content area literacy teaching and assessment practices to research-based learning strategies within the context of today's challenges of assessment and accountability combined with new insights about adolescents and literacy.
 
Dr. Conley previously served as the coordinator of the doctoral program within the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. Currently, Dr. Conley maintains a close connection with the practices and practitioners in today's schools as the curriculum developer  and planner for the Memphis Literacy Corps, a literacy-tutoring program in Memphis City Schools involving 900 college age tutors and 3000 children. Dr. Conley has served on the Board of Directors for the National Reading Conference, 2006-2008. He continues to serve on the Quality Undergraduate Elementary and Secondary Teacher Education in Reading Task Force and Literacy Coach Task Force for the International Reading Association.

Summary

Teachers get hands-on, ready-to-use tools and techniques for helping adolescents develop the literacy skills they need to be successful in all content areas.
 
The first edition set the new standard for content area reading books. In this second edition, top literacy researcher Mark Conley updates teachers on the many changes that have occurred across the educational landscape in the past few years, including information on the policy, standards, and assessment scene to encompass the new standards and reforms coming out of the Race to the Top program and more.
 
Designed to help adolescents become more skillful with reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and performing in all content areas, Content Area Literacy is packed with useful techniques for teaching students how to learn about these skills, while learning the subject they encounter in each content area discipline.
 
The first section of the book helps teachers confront the need to fully understand today's educational landscape, while the second section focuses on the specifics of how to go about planning and teaching, using principles of content area literacy. A unique final chapter of the book pulls it all together by showing educators how to enlist students' cooperation while reaching out to parents and the community to support teaching and learning.

Product details

• Authors: Mark W. Conley
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9780132690126
• ISBN: 978-0-13-269012-6
• No. of pages: 456
• Weight: 930 g
• Series: Allyn & Bacon; Allyn & Bacon
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology