Shows pre- and in-service content area teachers how to use literacy-related instructional strategies to help students think and learn with all kinds of print and digital texts.
KEY TOPICS: Comprehension, literacy and learning, vocabulary, writing across the curriculum, new literacies, assessment, culturally relevant pedagogy, disciplinary literacy, professional development, studying text
MARKET For pre-service and in-service teachers in content areas.
Rich and Jo Anne Vacca are professors emeriti in the College of Education at Kent State University. Jo Anne taught language arts in middle schools in New York and Illinois and received her doctorate from Boston University. Rich taught high school English in New York and earned his doctorate at Syracuse University. He is a past president of the International Reading Association. The Vaccas have written numerous books and scholarly articles including
Reading and Learning to Read, 8th Edition;
Whole Language in Middle and Secondary Classrooms; and
Case Studies in Whole Language. Rich also has served as a co-author of
Elements of Literature and
Elements of Language, both widely used in middle and secondary school English/language arts classrooms.
Maryann Mraz, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned her Ph.D. from Kent State University under the guidance of Jo Anne and Rich Vacca. Maryann is a former board member of the Association of Literacy Educators and Researchers (ALER) and the author of over 60 books, chapters, articles, and instructional materials on literacy education including co-authored books
The Literacy Coach's Companion and
Independent Reading. She teaches literacy courses across masters and doctoral programs in the College of Education at UNC Charlotte.