50 content area strategies for adolescent literacy

Fisher, Douglas, 1965- (Added Author).

Summary: "Engaging adolescent readers and ensuring they have the necessary literacy skills to succeed in all content areas can be a genuine challenge for middle school and secondary teachers. 50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent Literacy, a text written by some of the best-known authors in the field, provides inservice and preservice teachers with a handbook of evidence-based strategies to use across content areas to ensure reading and writing success for all students. See how the features of this text can help you improve your ability to develop literacy skills and strategies with your students."--BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 9780131745445
ISBN: 0131745441
Physical Description: print
v, 143 p. : ill ; 28 cm.
Publisher: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Merrill/Pearson, c2007.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Adjunct displays -- 2. Anticipation guides -- 3. Concept maps -- 4. Dictoglos -- 5. Directed notetaking activity -- 6. Directed reading-thinking activity -- 7. Echo or choral reading -- 8. Exit slips -- 9. Fishbowl discussions -- 10. Found poems -- 11. Generative reading -- 12. Guest speakers -- 13. Independent reading -- 14. Interest surveys, questionnaires, and interviews -- 15. Jigsaw -- 16. KWL -- 17. Language experience approach -- 18. Mnemonics -- 19. Modeled writing -- 20. Modeling language of process -- 21. Opinionnaire -- 22. Pattern guide -- 23. Poems for two voices -- 24. Popcorn review -- 25. Professor know-it-all -- 26. Questioning the author -- 27. Question-answer relationship -- 28. RAFT writing -- 29. Read-alouds -- 30. Readers' theatre -- 31. Read-write-pair-share -- 32. Reciprocal teaching -- 33. Request -- 34. Response writing -- 35. Shades of meaning -- 36. Shared reading -- 37. SPAWN writing -- 38. Split-page notetaking -- 39. Student booktalks -- 40. Student questions for purposeful learning -- 41. Text impressions -- 42. Text structures -- 43. Think-alouds -- 44. Tossed terms -- 45. Vocabulary cards -- 46. Vocabulary self-awareness -- 47. Word grids/semantic feature analysis -- 48. Word scavenger hunts -- 49. Word sorts -- 50. Word walls.