Common Core in the Content Areas - Balancing Content and Literacy

In Common Core in the Content Areas, author Jessica Bennett offers practical strategies that you can use to enhance literacy instruction without having to reinvent the wheel or abandon content instruction.

List of contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Relax, You're Not Starting Over! Here's What You're Already Doing
3. How To Make it Even Better. Yes, It's Possible.
4. Why am I Teaching Middle and High School Students How to Read?
5. Using the Text
6. All A's! Absorb, Analyze, Argue and Apply!
7. Reading, Reading, Reading but What about Writing?
8. Projects, Grading and Literacy? Is this More Work for Me?
9. There is NO Finish Line
Appendices

About the author

Jessica Bennett is a middle school teacher in Ohio and past president of the Ohio Council of Teachers of English

Summary

In Common Core in the Content Areas, author Jessica Bennett offers practical strategies that you can use to enhance literacy instruction without having to reinvent the wheel or abandon content instruction.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica Bennett, Jessica (Brookpark Middle School Bennett, Bennett Jessica
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2014
• EAN: 9780415742832
• ISBN: 978-0-415-74283-2
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Arts & Humanities, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary