Content Area Literacy Strategies That Work: Do This, Not That!

ISBN-13: 9780815375043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 172 str.

Lori G. Wilfong

Opis

This essential book describes ten best practices for content-area literacy and how to implement them in the middle-level classroom, helping you figure out which ideas to ditch and which to embrace. Each chapter includes Common Core connections and practical templates and tools.

Spis treści

1. Build Background Information Quickly  2. Help Scaffold Focus While Reading with Specific Strategies  3. Use Small Group Reading and Learning Strategies to Bring Personal Response and Accountability to the Content  4. Address Discipline-Specific Content Reading Strategies  5. Use Content Area Vocabulary in Meaningful Ways  6. Make Writing an Authentic Process in Every Classroom  7. Promote Daily Writing Strategies to Strengthen Thinking in the Discipline  8. Implement Slightly Larger Weekly Writing Strategies to Encourage Comprehension and Synthesis in the Discipline 9. Plan and Teach One "Big" Informational Piece Per Semester  10. Plan and Teach One "Big" Argumentative Piece Per Semester

O autorze

Lori G. Wilfong is a former middle school language arts teacher, current Associate Professor in Middle Childhood Education at Kent State University, frequent conference presenter, and forever supporter of teachers working to weave literacy into their classrooms.