Over the past decade, numerous literacy researchers have investigated the multiple literacies of adolescents. Connecting with adolescents' multiple literacies, including digital texts and high interest print-based texts, holds promise as a way to build bridges to subject area content and academic literacies. Although pre-service content area…

Provides an explanation of the reading strategy S.T.O.P. (Summarize, Trouble-shoot, Organize, and Predict) for use with content area reading at the secondary level. (MG)

This practitioner-research study investigated the reading behaviors of preservice teachers from diverse content disciplines as they engaged in reading multiple texts pertaining to a historical topic. Through participant-observer field notes, reader response journals, reflective essays, and participant debriefing, the authors examined the…

Defines "content literacy" as the ability to use reading and writing for the acquisition of new content in a given discipline. Identifies three principal cognitive components: general literacy skills; content-specific literacy skills; and prior knowledge of content. Discusses the implications of content literacy for content area reading…

Discusses the importance of reading in science lessons, and offers practical solutions to the problems of structuring shared reading, making reading active, encouraging note-taking, and locating potential sources of reading material. (Author/MM)

How-to-do-it monologues and tasks based on actual job reading give students needed practice in relating reading to job activities. (SK)

Teaching reading skills can easily be integrated into classroom activities and will result in improved reading and increased learning of subject matter. Reading is essential to the preparation of students for the work of the family at home and on the job. (JOW)

Describes the Selective Reading Guide-O-Rama which is designed to help students in reading selectively and in distinguishing key ideas from supportive evidence and major points from minor points. (RB)

The paper presents strategies to help regular class teachers help their mainstreamed students read and learn better. The seven teaching ideas are offered for use in "whole class" settings and are designed to benefit both mainstreamed and regular students. Further, the strategies can be used by subject matter instructors who cannot become…

Describes a high school where reading is taught in every content area, including in marine biology, health, and United States History. (RB)

Tells content reading teachers some of the pitfalls to avoid and some of the new approaches to take in helping students benefit from reading. (RB)

A CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM TEACHER DESIGNED TO EXTEND THE WORK OF THE READING TEACHER, TO MAKE ALL TEACHERS CONSCIOUS OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO TEACH READING, AND TO OFFER SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PROMOTE GROWTH IN READING IS PRESENTED. THE FOLLOWING ARE DISCUSSED--HOW TO INTRODUCE A READING ASSIGNMENT, THE SQ3R APPROACH, SOME…

Notes several documents in the ERIC data base which describe successful content area reading programs and methods. (MKM)

Maintains that literary fiction may be used to enhance students' understanding of an historical period. Demonstrates how Steinbeck's GRAPES OF WRATH may be used to convey the human side of problems, sufferings, and triumphs that the United States experienced during the Great Depression. (JDH)