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Features

• A common structure for presenting each strategy–1) scenario of a teacher using the strategy; 2) rationale for the strategy and its supporting research; and 3) descriptions of how the strategy works and authentic examples of the strategy in use.

  • Identifies the most effective strategies for teaching ALL content area disciplines based on actual teachers' experiences in urban schools.

• Inclusion of eight major strategies–Anticipatory activities, read-alouds/shared reading, questioning, notetaking/notemaking, graphic organizers, vocabulary instruction, writing to learn, and reciprocal teaching.

  • Presents a diverse repertoire for reaching all learners; ensures pre-service teachers can effectively observe techniques for utilizing each instructional strategy proven most effective with the target population.

• Explicit examples of each strategy in use in specific content area classes–English, science, social studies, mathematics, and elective courses.

  • Models time-tested research based strategies such as QAR, ReQuest, DR-TA, SQ3R play out in middle school and secondary classes for math, science, social studies, English, and so on.

• Working with Struggling Readers features specific ways for adapting the strategies provided to meet the needs of middle school and secondary students who particularly struggle with content area text.
• Provides additional suggestions for teachers who have students who are not able to read or who read at too low a level to successfully access  grade level work.                    
• Full chapter treatment of test preparation.

  • Illustrates strategies for incorporating the teaching of study skills and test prep into all content areas–and throughout the instructional program.

• Reflective Questions –Embedded throughout the material.

  • Offer prospective teachers opportunities to examine their own beliefs about literacy and about teaching–help them gauge their understanding of text content.

• Margin notes–Three different kinds that provide media notes, connect readers to information in other chapters and offer guidelines for working with English learners. 

  • Highlight practical information and resources–relevant, reliable Web sites; definitions of key terms; and additional examples of strategies in use, common challenges, and adaptive instruction.

New To This Edition

• NEW! Benefits for English Language Learners chapter headings signal specific ideas for guiding English learners toward mastery in literacy.
• NEW! Struggling Readers features notesprovide specific guidance for implementing each instructional strategy with readers who struggle.
• NEW! Media Notes throughout chapters clarify opportunities to use different technologies to enhance teaching.

Table of Contents

Improving Adolescent Literacy

Content Area Strategies at Work

By Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

1. Ensuring All Students Read, Write, and Think
2. Conversations: Classroom and School Structures that support Adolescent Literacy Development
3. Attention Getters: Anticipatory Activities to Inspire Learning
4. Word for Word: Vocabulary Development Across the Curriculum
5. Well Read: Promoting Comprehension through Read Alouds and Shared Readings
6. Why Ask?  Questioning Strategies in the Classroom
7. Picture This: Graphic Organizers in the Classroom
8. Getting It Down: Making and Taking Notes Across the Curriculum
9. Powerful Pen: Writing to Learn with Adolescents
10. Taking Stock: Standards, Assessment, and High-Stakes Testing

Courses

Reading Methods (Supplementary)  [CONTENT AREA LITERACY]   (Reading & Literacy)
Content Area Reading (Middle/Secondary)  [SUPPLEMENTS]   (Reading & Literacy)
Alternative Certification  [LITERACY]   (Curriculum & Instruction)
Reading/Writing Methods in the Middle School  [CONTENT AREA LITERACY]   (Reading & Literacy)

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• Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, 3/E
  Fisher & Frey
  ©2012  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Paper; 216 pp  |  Instock
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  Teachers and teacher candidates alike will find this practical, highly useable book–packed with real classroom examples of the strategies in action–a valuable resource for helping all students in their charge work toward mastery of literacy and comprehension of content area texts.

   

  Practical, straightforward, and affordable, this guide gives middle and secondary school teachers the tools they need to support their students’ comprehension and success in literacy and in the content areas. The classroom-proven strategies and procedures that are included come from the authors’ and their colleagues’ experience in middle and secondary classrooms. Each chapter opens with a vignette from an actual classroom so readers get to see effective teaching in action and how the chapter’s instructional approach works within content area teaching. Research-based rationales for each strategy follow the vignettes and provide an in-depth look at implementing the strategy, along with examples of each strategy across the curriculum. Featured is coverage of ideas for working with English language learners and struggling readers.

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Reviews

Gay Ivey — James Madison University

This is a highly practical and useable book for a range of teachers and teacher candidates.  Across the book, what I find most helpful are the descriptions of actual lessons.  Unlike most content area methods books on the market, this book seems to include real examples.  You get the feeling that the authors spend much time in high school classrooms and have a good feel of what’s currently happening and what works.  Especially valuable are examples of the strategies across different subject areas. 

Margot Kinberg, National University

The various topics are applied to many different content areas, so that nearly every teacher is likely to find a strategy that he or she can use.   Each chapter contains helpful graphics, useful concrete examples, and content-based strategies for implementing the various strategies in the classroom.  The book is very practical, easy to read, and well organized.  Information is easy to find and the busy practicing or pre-service teacher would no doubt find it to be a handy reference.

Karen Ford, Ball State University

The information is theoretically quite sound.  It provides the students with a wealth of strategies to facilitate comprehension. 

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