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by: Vacca, Richard T.; Vacca, Jo Anne L.; Mraz, Maryann E.

ISBN: 9780137035113 | 013703511X

Content Area Reading remains the market-leading text in content literacy and maintains the authors' original objectiveto offer an ambitious, coherent, and workable exploration of content literacy. Celebrating its 30th university, Vacca, Vacca, and new-to-this-edition co-author Mraz, have written this text to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Thoroughly updated, the text has been completely reorganized into two parts: Part 1, "Learners, Literacies, and Texts", places the focus on the cult... MOREural, linguistic, and academic diversity of today's learners; their personal and academic literacies, and the kinds of texts that are integral to their lives in and out of schools. Part 2, "Instructional Practices and Strategies", contains a multitude of evidence-based instructional strategies waiting to be adapted to meet the conceptual demands inherent in disciplinary learning. Accessible and comprehensible, the text provides a foundation that can be applied across the disciplines, meeting the needs of all students.

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With the underlying belief that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, this respected text is designed to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum. Content Area Reading.

Table of Contents

 

Preface

 

Part One:  Learners, Literacies,  and Texts

 

            Chapter   1:      Literacy Matters

 

    &nbs... MOREp;       Chapter   2:       Learning with New Literacies

 

            Chapter   3:       Culturally Responsive teaching in Diverse Classrooms

 

            Chapter   4:       Assessing Students and Texts

 

            Chapter   5:       Bringing Students and Texts Together

 

Part Two:  Instructional Practices and Strategies

 

            Chapter   6:      Activating Prior Knowledge and Interest

 

            Chapter   7:      Thinking and Learning with Text

 

            Chapter   8:      Developing Vocabulary and Concepts

 

            Chapter  9:       Writing to Learn

 

            Chapter 10:      Study Strategies

 

            Chapter 11:      Learning with Trade Books

 

            Chapter 12:      Literacy Coaching