Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?

by Vicki Urquhart, Dana Frazee

This 3rd edition draws from new research on the impact of new technologies, the population boom of English language learners, and the influence of the Common Core State Standards. You'll learn which instructional strategies best support reading in specific subjects and how you can optimize your classroom for reading, writing, and discussion.

Genres: Nonfiction, Education

241 pages, Paperback

First published June 29, 2012

Reviews

[Eco · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just a book for class

[Pamela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Only a small part of this book corresponded to my class, but it was well written and helpful. I will save it to finish later.

[Greig Roselli · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you teach any content area — science, english, math, or history — this book goes through loads of strategies to improve your students' literacy across the curriculum.

[Mari]

Text book read completely for school

[Sara Best · Rating 4 out of 5]

We are using this book as a text for a class I am team teaching. I found the first part about teaching reading surprisingly interesting. The second part with all the strategies was also very helpful, not only in the context of me teaching a class to education majors about teaching reading, but as ideas for learning activities I can use in my other college courses - albeit modified for the college level. The strategies as described in the book can serve as prompts for generating college-appropriate class activities.

[Katrina Misley · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is not so much a book you would sit and read (the first part of the book is dry and text-bookish), but an excellent resource to keep in the classroom (or where ever you make your lesson plans). It has over 30 great activties you can use with a reading assignment to increase student understanding and encourage deeper thinking.

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh, it was a user-friendly text, but there wasn't anything profound. It's basically a repeat of everything we already know. I don't think that I'll use it again.

[Taylor Troncin · Rating 5 out of 5]

LOTS of helpful information! Need to keep this one out for teaching / lesson planning!