Developing Content Area Literacy: 40 Strategies for Middle and Secondary Classrooms

Developing Content Area Literacy: 40 Strategies for Middle and Secondary Classrooms

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<p><b><i>Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas</i></b><br /><br /></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ListParagraph" align="left">Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, <b>Developing Content Area Literacy</b> is designed to help busy middle school and secondary teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students. Each of the 40 evidence-based strategies is organized around 8 essential areas of literacy instruction: academic vocabulary, reading fluency, narrative text, informational text, media and digital literacies, informational writing, critical thinking, and independent learning.</p><p><b></b></p><p><b>Key Features</b></p><p><b></b></p><ul><li><b>Specific approaches to differentiating instruction</b> for striving or struggling readers and writers as well as English language learners are included.[b1] </li><li><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ListParagraphCxSpFirst" align="left"><b>Easy-to-follow, step-by-step procedures</b> for each strategy are organized around “before,” “during,” and “after” reading and writing instruction.</div></li><li><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left" class="ListParagraphCxSpLast" align="left"><b>New and innovative ways to implement technology</b> in the classroom are included along with coverage of media and digital literacies.</div></li></ul>