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Title Best practices in adolescent literacy instruction / edited by Kathleen A. Hinchman and Heather K. Sheridan-Thomas ; foreword by Donna E. Alvermann.

Imprint New York : Guilford Press, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  428.40712 B464 2008    ---  Available
Description xviii, 379 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Discussing texts with adolescents in culturally responsive ways / Alfred W. Tatum -- Meaningful content for middle school students for whom English is an additional language / Eliane Rubinstein-Avila and Janelle Johnson -- Rethinking literacy learning and teaching : intersections of adolescents' in-school and out-of-school literacy practices / Shelley Hong Xu -- iLife : understanding and connecting to the digital literacies of adolescents / Dana J. Wilber -- Role of motivation in engaged reading of adolescents / David G. O'Brien and Deborah R. Dillon -- Actively engaging middle school students with words / Karen Bromley -- Strategy matters : comprehension instruction for older youth / Rachel Brown -- Reading and writing across multiple texts / Cynthia Hynd Shanahan -- Multimodality and literacy learning : using multiple texts to enhance content-area learning / Fenice B. Boyd and Mary K. Thompson -- Assisting struggling readers with textbook comprehension / Heather K. Sheridan-Thomas -- Reality of challenging texts in high school science and social studies : how teachers can mediate comprehension / Elizabeth Birr Moje and Jennifer Speyer -- Humanities instruction for adolescent literacy learners / Kelly Chandler-Olcott -- Fostering acquisition of official mathematics language / Codruta Temple and Kathleen A. Hinchman -- Intervening when older youth struggle with reading / Gay Ivey -- Instructional moves that support adolescent learners who have histories of failure / Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey -- Traveling together over difficult ground : negotiating success with a profoundly inexperienced reader in an introduction to chemistry class / Cindy Litman and Cynthia Greenleaf -- Literacy assessment for adolescents : what's fair about it? / Mark W. Conley -- Program development / David W. Moore -- Multiple dimensions of adolescent literacy teacher education / Patricia L. Anders.
Subject Language arts (Secondary) -- United States.
Language arts (Middle school) -- United States.
Language experience approach in education -- United States.
Added Author Hinchman, Kathleen A.
Sheridan-Thomas, Heather K.
ISBN 9781593856922 (pbk. : alk. paper)
159385692X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781593856939 (cloth : alk. paper)
1593856938 (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No. NZ1 12064238
AU@ 000042530136

 
    
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