With the passage of the "No Child Left Behind" act, and increasing pressures on teachers and administrators to produce results, true literacy is no longer optional. This book provides educators and education students with the classroom tested theories and practices needed to rise to the demand of today’s classroom. Now in its Fourth Edition, this book provides comprehensive, ready to implement, completely current theory, strategy, and implementation of all aspects of teaching reading and writing across the curriculum.
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Effective strategies for promoting literacy across the curriculum
Combining a real grounding in actual classroom experience with a solid research and theoretical base, Martha Rapp Ruddell’s Teaching Content Reading and Writing equips you with classroom-tested theories and practices for teaching reading and writing across the curriculum.
Now revised and updated, this Fourth Edition features increased coverage of sheltered instruction, a greater emphasis on the multi-modal nature of the literacy practices of today's youth and its implications in content classrooms, and more coverage of high-stakes testing and alternative assessment formats.
Inside, you’ll find valuable resources including:
- Over 30 different instructional strategies for teachers to use to guide students' reading and writing in middle and secondary schools.
- Guidelines on how to use technology to promote student literacy in content areas.
- Comprehensive coverage of second language acquisition and development and appropriate instructional practice for teaching bilingual students in multilingual classrooms.
- Step-by-step lists of how to plan and prepare, and what you need to consider to make specific instructional strategies work.
- Demonstration lesson plans in many different content areas throughout.
About the Author
Martha Ruddell is Professor of Education and a member of the Curriculum Studies and Secondary Education department at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In addition to this text, Dr. Ruddell is the co-editor of Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading, and has published numerous articles for professional journals, including Reading Online. Dr. Ruddell is Past President of the National Reading Conference, and in 1996 she was elected to membership in the California Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame.
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Fabulous resource for teachers and curriculum developers,
This review is from: Teaching Content Reading and Writing (Hardcover)
This amazing book gives activity ideas for teaching reading in all content areas. If you are wondering how to help your students develop, retain, and use the vocabulary specific to a content subject, such as math, science, or social studies, this is the book for you! If you are wondering how to help your students read the materials in your subject area more effectively, this is the book for you.
I am a curriculum developer who uses this book as a resource on every project. The content Martha Ruddell has gathered and research she has sited has helped numerous teachers transform their instruction. She also provides exciting lesson plans for the activities. My copy is getting worn from so much use!
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This has turned out to be a great resource! It was a required text for a class but I have really enjoyed the read.
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This is one of my most favorite books for teaching literacy across the curriculum. Ruddell has great strategies and lesson plans for writing across the curriculum.
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group mapping activity, reading response groups, splendid outcast, marginalized readers, new content words, marginalized learners, prereading instruction, prior knowledge base, school literacy learning, subject area classrooms, sheltered instruction, direct vocabulary instruction, subject area texts, subject area learning, subject area instruction, subject area classes, collaborative learning activities, reciprocal questioning, accomplished learners, collaborative learning groups, reader stance, literacy behaviors, substantive discourse, adolescent literacy, less able readers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, International Reading Association, United States, Englewood Cliffs, National Reading Conference, University Press, Reading Research Quarterly, Cone of Experience, San Francisco, Beryl Markham, Interactive Cloze, Press Democrat, Rethinking Schools, University of California, Antowan Reid, Brenda Shearer, New Orleans, Peter Lang, Round Robin Oral Reading, Teachers College Press, Upper Saddle River, Winston Churchill, World War, Anticipation Guides, Expert Sheet New!
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group mapping activity, reading response groups, splendid outcast, marginalized readers, new content words, marginalized learners, prereading instruction, prior knowledge base, school literacy learning, subject area classrooms, sheltered instruction, direct vocabulary instruction, subject area texts, subject area learning, subject area instruction, subject area classes, collaborative learning activities, reciprocal questioning, accomplished learners, collaborative learning groups, reader stance, literacy behaviors, substantive discourse, adolescent literacy, less able readers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, International Reading Association, United States, Englewood Cliffs, National Reading Conference, University Press, Reading Research Quarterly, Cone of Experience, San Francisco, Beryl Markham, Interactive Cloze, Press Democrat, Rethinking Schools, University of California, Antowan Reid, Brenda Shearer, New Orleans, Peter Lang, Round Robin Oral Reading, Teachers College Press, Upper Saddle River, Winston Churchill, World War, Anticipation Guides, Expert Sheet New!
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