Description
Book SynopsisFoundational and accessible, this book equips pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, tools, and resources they need to help students in grades 412 develop reading proficiencies in four core academic subjectsliterature, history, science, and mathematics. Applying a disciplinary literacy approach, Fang describes the verbal and visual resources, expert strategies, inquiry skills, and habits of mind that students must learn in order to read carefully, critically, purposefully, and with an informed skepticism across genres and content areas. He also shows how teachers can promote language learning and reading/literacy development at the same time that they engage students in content area learning.
With informative synthesis and research-based recommendations in every chapter, this text prepares teachers to help students develop discipline-specific, as well as discipline-relevant, discursive insights, literacy strategies, and ways of thinking, reasoni
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Reading and Learning in Academic Content Areas
Chapter 2 Reading Literature
Chapter 3 Reading History
Chapter 4 Reading Science
Chapter 5 Reading Mathematics
Chapter 6 Developing Teacher Expertise for Academic Reading Instruction
Index
