Content area literacy : interactive teaching for active learning /

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Author / Creator:Manzo, Anthony V.
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:New York : Wiley, c2001.
Description:vi, 457 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4404566
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Other authors / contributors:Manzo, Ula Casale.
Estes, Thomas H., 1940-
ISBN:0471365610 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-449) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Section I. Foundations of Content Area Literacy
  • Chapter 1. Why and What Teachers Should Know about Content Literacy
  • Introduction to content area literacy, with a look at a simple teaching method
  • The Listen-Read-Discuss
  • For improving reading and learning in any subject material
  • Chapter 2. Concepts and Terminology to Help You Get Started
  • A closer look at the cognitive processes involved in reading comprehension, and a method
  • The Oral Reading Strategy
  • For teaching active reading-thinking strategies
  • Chapter 3. Elements and Frameworks for Interactive Instruction in Content Area Reading and Writing
  • Elements of the interactive classroom, and an instructional frameworks for reading- and writing-based instruction
  • Section II. Reading and Learning from Text
  • Chapter 4. Methods for Prereading Schema Activation
  • Methods for medeling questioning strategies for prereading schema activation, and approaches to reading before reading
  • Chapter 5. Methods for Guiding Silent Reading
  • Techniques for actively monitoring comprehension, four types of reading guides, and a look at what's in store for built-in hypertext reading guides
  • Chapter 6. Methods for Postreading Schema Building
  • Teacher-directed and peer group formats for postreading recitation and discussion to consolidate learning
  • Chapter 7. Methods for Vocabulary and Concept Development
  • Methods for alerting students to new words before they read, and for acquiring new vocabulary during and after reading
  • Section III. Higher-Order Literacy and Assessment in the Disciplines
  • Chapter 8. Critical-Constructive Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Telecomputing
  • Guiding reading and thinking "beyond the lines" with methods that transform as well as inform
  • Chapter 9. Interactive Assessment for Active Self-Monitoring
  • Evaluation of student reading and writing, estimating the difficulty of text materials, and matching students and materials
  • Chapter 10. Reading, Learning, and Remembering: Study Methods and MindTools
  • Methods for building efficient independent reading-study-thinking habits
  • Section IV. Issues in Literacy Applications, Leadership, and Futures
  • Chapter 11. Discipline-Specific Applications of the Content Area Literacy Technology
  • Literacy considerations and methods especially suited to reading-based instruction in each subject area
  • Chapter 12. Literacy Support for Special-Needs Students in the Content Classroom
  • Principles and methods for meeting the needs of all students within and outside the content classroom
  • Chapter 13. Literacy Leadership and Content Area Programming
  • Traditional and pioneering program designs and leadership roles in the schoolwide literacy program
  • Chapter 14. Multiple Literacies in the Twenty-first Century: Interdisciplinarity, Entrepreneurism, and Other Mooga-Mooga
  • Trends that are redefining literacy, and implications for instruction
  • Appendix A. Model Professional Portfolio Recorder and Planner
  • Appendix B. School Reforms and Reformers
  • Appendix C. Core Functioning Inventory
  • References
  • Index