Reading in Secondary Content Areas

A Language-based Pedagogy

Mary J Schleppegrell author Zhihui Fang author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Michigan Press

Published:30th Nov '08

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Teaching reading in K-12 content classes? As students progress from elementary to secondary school and beyond, the reading skills required to address the increasingly advanced and specialized subject areas can vary considerably. Students need to develop specialized literacies (relevant to each content area) as well as a critical literacy they can use across subject areas.This text book presents teachers, administrators, and researchers with a linguistic approach to teaching reading in different subject areas - an approach that focuses on language itself. Central to this approach is a view that knowledge is constructed in and through language and that language changes with changes in knowledge. This functional language analysis approach is shown using actual secondary social studies, science, and math textbooks and using a literary text.

ISBN: 9780472032792

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 240g

144 pages