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" Content area reading and literacy : "
Donna E. Alvermann, Victoria R. Gillis, Stephen F. Phelps.
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BL
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872640
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Alvermann, Donna E.
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Content area reading and literacy : : succeeding in today's diverse classrooms /\ Donna E. Alvermann, Victoria R. Gillis, Stephen F. Phelps.
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| Edition Statement
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7th ed.
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Boston :: Pearson,, ©2013.
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xx, 483 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0132685191
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: 9780132685191
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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1. Content literacy and the reading process -- 2. Language, diversity, and culture -- 3. Creating a favorable learning environment -- 4. Planning for content literacy -- 5. Assessment of students and textbooks -- 6. Preparing to read -- 7. Preparing to learn -- 8. Increasing vocabulary and conceptual growth -- 9. Reflecting on reading -- 10. Writing across the curriculum -- 11. Studying and study strategies -- 12. Developing lifetime readers: literature in content area classes.
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"Students and teachers have long appreciated the scope of topics and examples, the research-based information, and the accessible writing style presented by these three trusted authorities in the field of adolescent literacy. This seventh edition includes up-to-date information to help teachers address the literacy needs of English learners in their classrooms and today's culturally diverse student population, while also addressing new frameworks for reading and writing instruction, including a sociocultural perspective on teaching and learning and insights from the New Literacies. As in previous editions, this seventh edition is based on the assumption that, rather than just a mere add-on, "content literacy is integral to every discipline and special subject area, to the teachable moments that make less stellar ones tolerable, and, most important, to each student's motivation and engagement with learning." The ideas the authors present are backed by research, tested in real classrooms, and designed to help teachers apply what is useful to their own particular disciplines. The ideas they share-both new and from "--Publisher.
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Content area reading-- United States.
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Multicultural education-- United States.
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Reading (Secondary)-- Social aspects-- United States.
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Reading (Secondary)-- United States.
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Teenagers-- Books and reading-- United States.
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Content area reading.
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Multicultural education.
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Reading (Secondary)
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Reading (Secondary)-- Social aspects.
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Teenagers-- Books and reading.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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428.4071/2
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LB1050.455.A47 2013
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Gillis, Victoria Ridgeway.
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Phelps, Stephen F.
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