Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content - Area Reading

Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content - Area Reading

<P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>Grades 7-12</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>Finally, a book about content-area reading that€s just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, <I>Subjects Matter </I>points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas.</P> <B> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>This book features:</P> </B> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>a tough analysis of today€s textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively </DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>a new €œbalanced diet€ of reading, including 150 books of interest to teenagers</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>special help and materials for students who struggle</DIV> </LI> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px" align=left>scientific proof that the book€s recommended activities do improve reading and learning.</DIV> </LI> </UL>