Reading for understanding : a guide to improving reading in middle and high school classrooms / Ruth Schoenbach ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schoenbach, Ruth.

Series:

Jossey-Bass education series

The Jossey-Bass education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading (Secondary)--United States.

Reading (Secondary).

United States.

Reading (Middle school)--United States.

Reading (Middle school).

Physical Description:

xxv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, [1999]

Summary:

Many middle and high school students have difficulty reading and understanding academic texts, which limits their ability to meet today's high learning standards. Reading for Understanding addresses this quiet but growing crisis. Written for content-area teachers in secondary schools, this guidebook describes a successful approach to helping students improve their literacy across all subject areas. The authors describe a program in which an entire freshman class in one urban high school increased its average reading scores by more than two years after seven months of instruction. Piloted in San Francisco, the groundbreaking Academic Literacy program proved that it was not too late for teachers and students to work together in boosting literacy, engagement, and achievement.

Easy to read and filled with vivid classroom lessons and exercises, Reading for Understanding shows teachers how they can create classroom "reading apprenticeships" to help students build reading comprehension skills and relate what they read to a larger knowledge base. It also discusses the strategies and support systems needed to implement and evaluate reading apprenticeship programs throughout a school. This unique guidebook is a solid companion for educators ready to face the challenge of building reading into their content-area teaching.

Contents:

Confronting the problem of middle and high school reading

Rethinking the problem: crisis and opportunity

The reading apprenticeship framework

Part 2: Reading apprenticeship in the classroom

Developing academic literacy

Motivating students to take control of their reading

Acquiring cognitive tools for reading

Building context, text, and disciplinary knowledge

Embedding apprenticeship strategies in subject area classrooms

Overcoming obstacles in implementation

Part 3: Beyond the classroom

Professional development: creating communities of master readers

Developing schoolwide reading apprenticeship programs

Epilogue: Inviting continuing conversation

Appendix A: Academic literacy curriculum

Appendix B: Reading assessment.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0787950459

OCLC:

42429011

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