In "Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy," Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes reveal how text sets can prompt serious thinking far more effectively than a textbook or any single text. As the authors explain, exploring many texts leads teachers and learners to 'think more deeply, empathize more fully, and…

This tool was developed to assist school leaders in observing specific research-based practices during literacy instruction in grade 4-12 classrooms and students' independent use or application of those practices. The tool aims to help school leaders conduct brief and frequent walkthroughs throughout the school year. The tool consists of three…

This guidance report aims to help secondary schools improve literacy in all subject areas. It provides seven recommendations related to reading, writing, talk, vocabulary development and supporting struggling students. Throughout the report, recommendations emphasise the importance of disciplinary literacy. Disciplinary literacy is an approach to…

Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative classroom practices. Chapters include clear…

The author integrated reading in an Introduction to Business course to teach students to become involved with the material they read, to relate ideas from literature to the course content, and to stimulate interest in outside reading. Readings from "Iacocca: An Autobiography" were assigned and discussed in small groups. (CH)

Two processes involved in reading mathematics are discussed in this document: eye movements and relating the mathematical idea to the appropriate word or symbol. Many kinds of eye movements are used in mathematics--around, top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, diagonal, backward and forward, and follow the arrow. Examples of each kind are presented. The…

A rationale for the teaching of reading in conjunction with the teaching of science is developed and illustrated. Specific activities at elementary, middle, and secondary school levels are discussed in terms of the reading skills involved and the science processes stressed. (AA)

This handbook includes materials developed by faculty members of George W. Wingate High School in a program to improve reading skills in subject area classes. These materials include lesson plans and various kinds of worksheets. Although the lessons involve many content areas, they are divided into these reading skill subject areas; vocabulary…

The course outlined in this document was designed to help students develop reading comprehension skills that will enable them to adequately use government procedural manuals. Five goals are identified: to be able to (1) understand and use the organization of material in order to locate specific information, (2) identify the main idea of…

This booklet was designed to acquaint social studies teachers with the meanings of some of the terms used in reading which are related to social studies, to acquaint these teachers with the reading skills that can be taught and/or reinforced through social studies activities, and to provide a source of a model of such activities. Activities are…

The author gives suggestions for using literature to supplement content area study, particularly in social studies and science. Emphasis is on literature for grades five through eight. (CH)

The purpose of this manual is to assist the reading teacher toward a fuller understanding of the processes and procedures applicable to the teaching of reading using social studies and science materials in the skills lab. For each of the two subject areas, the manual provides an overview, a list of teaching techniques for the various reading…

Home economics teachers have always taught basic skills, but they must learn to identify clearly how basic skills are incorporated into classes, how skills are taught effectively, and how to publicize the fact. Various examples using reading, writing, and mathematics skills are provided. (CH)

The material in this monograph is based on the idea that science content and the reading and reasoning processes for learning may be taught simultaneously in the science classroom. Topics of the six chapters are: distinguishing between content and process, developmental and functional reading; diagnosis in teaching science; preparatory activities…

This booklet is designed to help science teachers who would like to improve the reading skills of their students. The first section of the booklet has three purposes: to acquaint the science teacher with meanings of terms related to reading in science, to acquaint the teacher with reading skills which can be taught and/or reinforced through…