Reading to Learn in the Content Areas

The text covers primary through secondary grades and features examples from all content areas, including math, science, social studies, language arts, health, music, art, foreign languages, and vocational education. A comprehensive table categorizes all activities by grade level and content area for easy reference.
Abundant sample activities developed by actual teachers and students during classroom practice provide interesting, relevant, and useful examples. At the same time, the authors' strategy-based approach shows students how each activity is also a strategic means to aid learning.
The authors adopt a balanced approach and strong research base to provide a realistic and practical treatment of reading and methodology issues, theory, research, and historical perspective. Their unique instructional framework, PAR (Preparation/Assistance/Reflection), appears throughout the book.
Detailed chapter introductions offer a useful guide to key content and show how various chapters relate to one another, while structured overviews, graphic organizers, and Margin Notes within each chapter help readers focus their studies and better absorb the material.
Each chapter opens with a real-life classroom scenario involving an interesting dilemma related to the chapter content, followed by an actual teacher's response--providing practical insights that students may be able to put to good use in their future classrooms. With READING TO LEARN IN THE CONTENT AREAS, Eighth Edition, future educators discover how they can teach students to use reading, discussion, and writing as vehicles for learning in any discipline. The book explores how the increased availability of computers, instructional software, social media, and Internet resources--as well as the rise of electronic literacy in general--have affe More »