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Content Area Literacy: Interactive Teaching for Active Learning, Third Edition
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More About This Title Content Area Literacy: Interactive Teaching for Active Learning, Third Edition

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The Third Edition of this well respected text introduces readers to the why and how of promoting basic and higher-order literacy. It does so in the context of the importance of reading and thinking as a collateral part of specific subject instruction in an increasingly interconnected local and global environment. Conveyed in a clear and comprehensive manner, the ideas and methods presented reflect nearly a century of progress and the continuing evolution into this age of local and worldwide telecomputing
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FOUNDATIONS OF CONTENT AREA LITERACY.

Why and What Teachers Should Know about Content Literacy.

Concepts and Terminology to Help You Get Started.

Elements and Frameworks for Interactive Instruction in Content Area Reading and Writing.

READING AND LEARNING FROM TEXT.

Methods for Prereading Schema Activation.

Methods for Guiding Silent Reading.

Methods for Postreading Schema Building.

Methods for Vocabulary and Concept Development.

HIGHER-ORDER LITERACY AND ASSESSMENT IN THE DISCIPLINES.

Critical-Constructive Reading, Writing, Thinking, and Telecomputing.

Interactive Assessment for Active Self-Monitoring.

Reading, Learning, and Remembering: Study Methods and MindTools.

ISSUES IN LITERACY APPLICATIONS, LEADERSHIP, AND FUTURES.

Discipline-Specific Applications of the Content Area Literacy Technology.

Literacy Support for Special-Needs Students in the Content Classroom.

Literacy Leadership and Content Area Programming.

Multiple Literacies in the Twenty-first Century: Interdisciplinarity, Entrepreneurism, and Other Mooga-Mooga.

Appendices.

References.

Index.

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