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Content Area Literacy: Interactive Teaching for Active Learning, Second Edition
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This text introduces future teachers to the "why" and "how" of promoting basic and higher-order literacy. It does so in the context of promoting reading and thinking as a collateral part of specific subject instruction, in an increasingly interconnected local and global environment.
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INTERACTIVE TEACHING BEGINS WITH KNOWING STUDENTS.

Why and What Teachers Should Know About Content Literacy.

Foundations of Teaching and Learning.

Interactive Assessment for Active Self-Monitoring.

READING AND LEARNING FROM TEXT.

Guiding Learning from Text: Three-Phase Methods.

Prereading Methods: for Schema Activation and Instructional Modeling.

Guided Silent Reading Methods and Strategies.

Postreading Questioning and Cooperative Methods.

HIGHER-ORDER LITERACY IN THE DISCIPLINES.

Vocabulary, Language, and Concept Development Across the Disciplines.

Writing, Reading, Thinking and Telecomputing Across the Curriculum and the Globe.

Study Methods and Strategies: For Guided Reading, Learning, and Remembering.

REFERENCE INFORMATION IN CONTENT AREA LITERACY.

Discipline-Specific Problems, Contributions, and Applications.

Special Needs Students and Issues in Remediation and Diversity.

Schoolwide Content Area Literacy Programming and Professional Development.

Appendices.

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