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Updated on January 17, 2005
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An informative website, Literacy and Learning, has useful strategies and resources Staff Support from School District 214, ArlingtonHeights, Il., has a set of strategies useful for the goal focus of improving reading in the content areas. How to Boost Your Students' Understanding of Your Content Area by Gail Lovely shares links for a variety of strategies ASCD's November 2002 Educational Leadership featured Content Area Reading. Reading Strategies that Assist in Content Area Reading--a great web site put together by Sarasota, Florida schools. Content Study Guides and Vocabulary Development to Assist Content Readers is available on the site of Dr. Jill Kerper Mora of San Diego State University. Teaching Reading in the Content Area Strategies raises test scores. This school district web site, Forsyth County, offers downloadable graphic organizers and many links to great resources. This site has lesson plans for teaching content area strategies. Although the site announces it is for secondary teachers, all teachers could benefit from these ideas. A site with links for integrating content reading strategies across the curriculum. This University of Virginia Reading Quest web site has links to all kinds of resources for a plethora of strategies for reading in the content area. An excellent, rich web site of resources with ready to print handouts, well described content area reading strategies. A rich web site with a wide variety of strategies and printable materials to assist in teaching Reading the Content Area Strategies from Jackson Hole. Virginia Tech has an excellent web site on self help study skills which can be useful strategies for content area reading assistance. A superb web site on secondary reading strategies. From the Harvard Education Newsletter, What Secondary Teachers can do to Teach Reading. Chimacum Middle School has a Reading in the Content Area Reading Strategy site to assist students in reading their science textbooks. Content Area Reading Strategies for all areas are available on this web site from San Diego State University. Los Angeles County has a web site with some information you may find useful in teaching reading in the content area. |
| ASCD's Educational Leadership November Issue was totally devoted to Content Area Reading. Check it out! | The Special Interest Group's Journal of Content Area Reading also offers a rich resource of information. |
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Prereading Activities for Content Area Reading and Learning John E. Readence This book provides a variety of activities content area teachers can use for preparing students for successful content area reading experiences. For a more detailed description and ordering information from IRA, click here. Also you can find this book at Amazon.Com. |
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Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning Doug Buehl This book provides
assistance to middle and high school teachers on explicit instruction
in reading comprehension and study strategies across the curriculum. Click
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for a more detailed description and ordering information from IRA.
You can also buy this book from Amazon.Com. |
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New Directions in Reading Instruction, Revised Editor: This book is a compilation of strategies to focus students’ attention on relevant information as they synthesize and integrate that information with what they already know. Click here for a more detailed description and ordering information from IRA. |
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Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners Charlotte Rose Sadler This book offers 56 strategies including a brief description and easy-to-follow procedures, examples, and suggestions for assessment. To find out more about this book click here. You can also buy this book at Amazon.Com. |
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Strategies for Integrating Reading and Writing in Middle and High School Classrooms Karen D. Wood This book is show teachers how to integrate reading and writing across content areas in middle and high schools. Within each chapter are several strategies, and along with each strategy are one or more sample lessons to illustrate the application to various subject areas. For a more detailed description of this book a sample chapter and ordering information from IRA, click here. |
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I Read It, but I Don't Get It: Comprehension Strategies for Adolescent Readers Cris Tovani, Ellin Oliver Keene To find out about this book, visit Amazon.Com. You can read excerpts from the book as well as reviews.
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Strategies That Work: Teaching
Comprehension to Enhance Understanding The book discusses five comprehension strategies that are vital for creating meaning from text: making connections; questioning; visualizing and inferring; determining importance in text; and synthesizing information. This book has actual classroom application. It helps teachers understand how these strategies can be implemented into instructional practices. You can find out more about this book on Amazon.Com. |
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That Works
by Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. PollockYou can find this book on the ASCD web site "Book Room" |
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Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, then Who? 2nd Edition Rachel Billmeyer and Mary Lee Barton You can find this book on the ASCD web site "Book Room" |
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Teaching Reading In Mathematics, 2nd Edition Rachel Lee Barton and Clare Heidema You can find this book on the ASCD web site "Book Room" |
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Teaching Reading in Science Mary Lee Barton and Deborah L. Jordan You can find this book on the ASCD web site "Book Room" |
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Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum Richard Vacca and Jo Ann Vacca This text contains a wealth of practical activities and strategies designed to foster content area literacy by assisting the teacher in scaffolding instruction so that all students can become knowledgable and profficient in developing their own learning strategies. Read more about this book and ordering information by clicking here. |
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Improving Comprehension
With Think-Aloud Strategies This book explains to the teacher how to model predicting, inferring, visualizing, summarizing, making connections to real life. These are critical strategic reading skills for all content areas. You can read excerpts on Amazon.Com.
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