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In Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy, authors Erika Thulin Dawes and Mary Ann Cappiello demonstrate how text sets offer students the opportunity to build critical thinking skills and informational literacy while generating interest and engagement across the content areas.
List of contents
Part 1: Defining and Designing Text Sets; Chapter 1: Text Sets as Tools to Dig Deeper and to Consider Content; Chapter 2: How Do Text Sets Cultivate Disciplinary Literacy and Critical Thinking?; Part II: Examples; Chapter 3: Genre and Theme in Language Arts; Chapter 4: Perspectives and Representations in Social Studies; Chapter 5: Evidence and Inquiry in Science; Chapter 6: Problem Solving and Visualizing Data in Mathematics; Part III: Invitations; Chapter 7: Language Arts Invitations; Chapter 8: Social Studies Invitations; Chapter 9: Science Invitations: Ocean Interdependencies; Chapter 10: Mathematics Invitations: Geometry and Design
About the author
Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes are Professors of Language and Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Summary
In Text Sets in Action: Pathways Through Content Area Literacy, authors Erika Thulin Dawes and Mary Ann Cappiello demonstrate how text sets offer students the opportunity to build critical thinking skills and informational literacy while generating interest and engagement across the content areas.
