Teaching Content Reading and Writing - Couverture rigide

Ruddell, Martha Rapp

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0471365572 ISBN 13 : 9780471365570

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1997

Synopsis

This teaching manual presents reading and writing from a middle school and secondary school perspective. The major focus of the text is on classroom instruction, and it aims to give teachers sound, theory-based instructional strategies for increasing their teaching effectiveness and developing their students' literacy/learning abilities. Topics discussed include: co-operative learning; portfolio assessment; reading and writing across the curriculum; thematic instruction and learned instruction across subject areas; developing lifelong readers and writers; second language learning; giftedness; and gender differences. Throughout the text, attention is given to issues of cultural and language diversity and the changing needs of middle school and secondary school populations.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Link theory and practice to effectively teach today s adolescents

With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act and increasing pressures on teachers to produce results, true literacy is no longer optional all the more so in a technological world, where adolescent literacy has become increasingly diverse and complex. In this new edition of Teaching Content Reading and Writing, Martha Rapp Ruddell provides you with the evidence–based theories and practices you need to rise to the demand of today′s schools and to make decisions about the most effective ways to teach today s learners.

Updated and revised in light of the evolving realities of adolescent lives and literacies, Teaching Content Reading and Writing, Fifth Edition offers a wealth of ready–to–implement ideas and features to help you achieve success in your classroom, including:

• Up–to–date discussions of adolescent literacies including digital literacies such as iPods, podcasts, IM, and blogs
• Suggestions for content area instruction that supports the needs of all learners
• Centerpiece Lesson Plans that show you how to apply and adapt instructional strategies for specific content area lessons
• How To Do feature step–by–step instructions you can use to plan lessons
• Creating Strategic Readers, Writers, and Learners specific suggestions for helping your students take charge of their own learning and become confident learners
• Online Video Vignettes of real teachers teaching real students let you see how the strategies play out in the classroom
• Opening–chapter classroom scenarios, Double Entry Journal prompts, end–of–chapter What This Chapter Means to You, and other guides to connect what you learn to your own experience and classroom 

Biographie de l'auteur

Martha Rapp Ruddell is Professor and Dean Emerita of the School of Education at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. In addition to this book, Dr. Ruddell is the author of numerous articles and book chapters and continues actively as a researcher, author, and presenter at professional conferences. A past president of the National Reading Conference, which honored her in 2003 with the Al Kingston Service Award, Dr. Ruddell is a member of the California Reading Association′s Hall of Fame and was recently named Distinguished Alumna by the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where she had received the Ph.D. degree.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0471365572
• ISBN 13: 9780471365570
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 432
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible