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

Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy, Second Edition is designed to help busy teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students. "Antonacci and O′Callaghan have truly brought content literacy into the technology age with this book, a must-have text that combines classic strategies with digital and other new literacies to prepare teachers for the 21st century classroom!" "Developing Content Area Literacy provides 40 strategies for middle and secondary classrooms in a format that not only makes the strategies easy to use in the classrooms, but also provides the research behind each one."

"I like the way each strategy is in its own comprehensive chapter with overviews, step-by-step procedures, differentiation, focus on ELLs, and application of the strategy. Because each has its own chapter, it makes it easy to find/reference each one."

Forty evidenced-based strategies for integrating literacy instruction into the content areas  

Providing unique content on assessment, differentiated instruction, technology, and reflective practice, Developing Content Area Literacy, Second Edition is designed to help busy middle school and secondary teachers meet the challenge of addressing the literacy learning needs of all students, including English language learners. Each of the 40 evidence-based strategies is organized around eight essential areas of literacy instruction: academic vocabulary, reading fluency, narrative text, informational text, media and digital literacies, informational writing, critical thinking, and independent learning. Each topic has five strategies from which to choose, giving teachers ample variety to meet the diverse needs of the classroom.

• | Author: Catherine M. O'Callaghan, Patricia A. Antonacci, Esther Berkowitz
• | Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• | Publication Date: Dec 17, 2014
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781483347646
• | ISBN-10: 1483347648