Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening

by Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Highly acclaimed author Heidi Hayes Jacobs shows teachers – at very grade level and in every subject area -- how to integrate the teaching of literacy skills into their daily curriculum. With an emphasis on school wide collaborative planning, she shows how curriculum mapping sustains literacy between grade levels and subjects.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
1. Revising Roles: Every Teacher Becomes an Active Language Teacher
2. Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Employing Three Distinctive Types of Vocabulary
3. Creative Notetaking: Activating Extraction and Reaction from Texts
4. Editing and Revising Independently: Using a Consistent Developmental Policy in Every K-12 Classroom
5. Speaking and Listening in Groups: Working with the Discussion Types
6. Tuning the Speaking/Listening Instrument: Giving Voice Lessons in Each Classroom
7. Mapping Active Literacy: Revising and Integrating Curriculum Maps K-12
Bibliography

Genres: Teaching

152 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 2006

About the author

Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is an author and internationally recognized education leader known for her work in curriculum mapping, curriculum integration,and developing 21st century approaches to teaching and learning.
Jacobs is President of Curriculum Designers, Inc. and Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute. She works as an education consultant with schools and districts K–12 on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum reform, instructional strategies to encourage critical thinking, and strategic planning.

Reviews

[Jennie Hale · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it for work. Tedious for a subject that should be so much fun.