Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms

by Donna E. Alvermann, Stephen F. Phelps, Victoria Ridgeway Gillis

A continuing best-seller, the Sixth Edition of Content Area Reading and Literacy equips preservice and inservice teachers to teach content area literacy in an era of high accountability and provides in-depth and integrated attention to the needs of students from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. This well-respected text has been lauded for its scope of topics and examples, its research-based information, and its accessible writing style. Written by trusted authorities in the field of adolescent literacy, Donna Alvermann, Stephen Phelps, and Victoria Ridgeway Gillis, the sixth edition includes up-to-date information on addressing the literacy needs of English learners and a culturally diverse student population. Victoria Ridgeway Gillis has more than two decades of secondary school teaching experience, which brings added depth and credibility to each chapter. This text also addresses new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Nonfiction, Reference

496 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Donna E. Alvermann teaches courses in popular culture and adolescent literacy at the University of Georgia, where she holds the title of Distinguished Research Professor in Language and Literacy Education. Donna has been a middle/junior high school teacher in Houston, Texas, and Elmira, New York. She has been a fan of “all things pop culture” since the mid-1950s, when she was president of the James Dean Fan Club. Currently, she counts Facebook, YouTube, and Second Life among her favorite pop culture texts.

Reviews

[Leslie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Even though there was some good information in the book, deciphering it from the very confusing wording was not worth it. The book was terribly written and for it being a book on reading and literacy you would think they would have written it in an easier-to-read manner! Poorly written and very complicated. Not worth it.

[Bellatuscana Bellatuscana · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did not learn anything really valuable about teaching literacy from this book.

[Robert Fry · Rating 1 out of 5]

The person who wrote this extremely long, convoluted textbook, with its overly complicated explanations that drone on well past my bedtime, obviously had no regard for the mind of a wandering attention span. And if I were a tree that went into the making of it, I'd be pissed.

[Katherine Fountain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love this book but the technology links and recommendations should be updated & more rigorous in my opinion.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Textbook. I actually read an entire textbook.

[Rachel Robins · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dense text but excellent strategies for content and LA teachers alike.

[Zack · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a textbook...but it was better than a lot of textbooks.