Description
Book SynopsisThe text highlights issues of comprehension, vocabulary development, assessment, and second language. In addition, it addresses issues of diversity and ELL students, approaches for sheltered instruction, and the integration of technology into secondary learning and teaching, as well as lifelong reading/writing, using literature in content learning, and teacher professional development.
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Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: Literacy in Middle and Secondary Schools.
CHAPTER 2: Literacy and Language Processes: Thinking, Reading, and Writing in First and Second Languages.
CHAPTER 3: Evaluating Instructional Materials.
CHAPTER 4: Comprehension Instruction in Content Areas.
CHAPTER 5: Vocabulary Learning in Content Areas.
CHAPTER 6: Teaching Bilingual/Bicultural Students in Multilingual/ Multicultural Settings.
CHAPTER 7: Reading Across the Curriculum.
CHAPTER 8: Writing Across The Curriculum.
CHAPTER 9: Assessment of Student Progress in Subject Area Reading and Writing.
CHAPTER 10: Diversity in the Classroom: Meeting the Needs of All Students.
CHAPTER 11: Content Learning, Collaboration, and Literacy.
CHAPTER 12: Developing Lifelong Readers and Writers.
Index.
