Adolescent literacy in the academic disciplines : general principles and practical strategies /

The first section of this book proposes the need for new research in adolescent literacy focusing upon discipline-related strategies. Although literacy professionals who have kept current would know much of the information concerning declining literacy scores and the comprehension studies mentioned, useful emerging scholarship and new publications are cited. Most notably in the first section, chapter 2 offers convincing evidence of the need for research in discipline-related literacy by dissecting relevant text examples from science, math, and history and showing how textbook structure, specialized and semi-technical vocabulary, symbolism and visual display, nominalizations, causality, and texture are unique for each discipline. Section 2 thoroughly examines a variety of disciplines: language arts, science, math, history, visual arts, and music. Each chapter illuminates unique discipline-related literacy strategies that meet the disciplinary standards. Many chapters include scenarios for comparison--traditional content-literacy strategies and discipline-related strategies. Other chapters include charts for the examination of specific skills necessary for discipline-related comprehension. This information makes reexamining the need for research in adolescent literacy pedagogy imperative. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. G. M. Reeder Azusa Pacific University