Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence - Tapa blanda

The revised edition of Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents provides fresh, contemporary insights to help content area teachers develop literacy skills within their respective content disciplines. Recognizing the need to meet adolescents' identity needs within today's youth culture and the pervasiveness of diversity, the new themes in this text set the tone for the need to recognize change and offer cutting edge ideas for motivating and engaging youth in literacy activities, both to hone or remediate literacy skills within various content area studies. Based on clearly defined principled practice, each chapter presents multiple examples of strategies that have worked for classroom teachers, provided to build teaching and learning competencies.

"Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents, Fifth Edition, " provides fresh, contemporary insights to help teachers develop adolescents' literacy skills within their respective content disciplines. Based on clearly defined, principled practice, the book discusses strategies for expanding comprehension, creating motivating learning contexts, developing vocabulary knowledge, using writing as a form of active learning, and more! Filled with tested-strategies from practicing teachers, the book includes teaching scenarios that address numerous techniques and a variety of learners. This edition features expanded coverage of technology, more on professional learning communities, and current resources ideal for fostering literacy in the middle and upper grades.