Content Area Literacy: An Integrated Approach

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Kendall Hunt, 2004 - Education - 315 pages

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Contents

Addressing No Child Left Behind
1
Technology
6
What Makes This Textbook Integrated?
8
Technology
15
Internet
21
Language
28
Students with Disabilities
35
Language Diversity and Cognition
37
Vocabulary
145
A General Decoding Strategy for Textbooks
148
Word Origins Etymologies
154
Clues and Questions
160
Crossword Puzzles
166
Principles and Integrated Approaches
171
Integrated Approaches
176
Guiding Content
187

Selecting Textbooks and Multimedia
50
Readability
57
Introducing the Textbook to Students
64
Assessment
71
Cautions Concerning Standardized Testing
77
Selecting Textbook and Multimedia Materials 5 Assessment
80
Content Reading Inventory
84
Part
95
Teaching and Learning Strategies
98
Unit and Lesson Planning
105
Planning Thematic Units and Lessons
106
Literature
115
Young Adult Literature
121
Literature
138
Words
140
Guiding Content Literacy
191
Reading Strategies
197
Postreading Strategies
204
Postscript
213
Writing
220
Studying and Preparing
244
Preparing for Examinations
260
Studying and Preparing for Examinations
269
Glossary
273
Bibliography
281
How to Use
297
Overview of State Reading
303
Subject Index
309
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