Full Description
`Not just for reading teachers, this book is ideal for all secondary content areas. Each chapter includes a wealth of resources including powerful reading strategies, vivid classroom examples, and 'Strategies for Struggling Readers' sections to help close the achievement gap between proficient and at-risk students' - Rachel Billmeyer, Educational Consultant Secondary teachers will have a valuable resource in their classroom with this book. The authors show how students can become high achievers and more thoughtful readers with the strategies and skills offered in this book. Reading is an essential skill in our culture, and these skills can be improved upon using the specific examples of application and organization that are laid out in easy-to-understand language in this book. Using lots of examples, stories, and diagrams, each chapter guides the reader through the process of improving their reading skills.
Contents
PrefaceAbout the Authors1. The Challenge of Textbook Reading2. Becoming a Thoughtful Note Maker3. Managing and Mastering Vocabulary4. Reading Beyond the Information Given: Thinking and Reading in the Content Areas5. Turning Questions Into Quests6. The Reading-Writing Connection7. Reading Styles: The Key to Reading SuccessReferencesIndex
