Demystifying Academic Reading: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Reading Across Content Areas

This book provides pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, tools, and resources to help students in grades 4–12 develop reading proficiencies in four core academic subjects. It applies a disciplinary literacy approach and prepares teachers to promote language learning and reading/literacy development simultaneously. It also provides teacher educators with approaches and strategies for helping teacher candidates develop expertise in academic reading instruction.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive and accessible book is designed to equip pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, tools, and resources they need to help students in grades 4–12 develop reading proficiencies in four core academic subjects: literature, history, science, and mathematics. By adopting a disciplinary literacy approach, Fang delves into the verbal and visual resources, expert strategies, inquiry skills, and habits of mind that students must acquire to read carefully, critically, purposefully, and with an informed skepticism across genres and content areas. Moreover, he demonstrates how teachers can simultaneously promote language learning and reading/literacy development while engaging students in content area learning.

In each chapter, the book offers informative synthesis and research-based recommendations to prepare teachers to assist students in developing discipline-specific, as well as discipline-relevant, discursive insights, literacy strategies, and ways of thinking, reasoning, and inquiring that are essential for productive learning across academic subjects. Furthermore, it provides teacher educators with approaches and strategies for helping teacher candidates develop expertise in academic reading instruction. By demystifying academic reading, the book reveals the necessary skills and expertise for students to read increasingly complex academic texts with confidence and understanding, and for teachers to develop the expertise that promotes disciplinary literacy.

This state-of-the-art text is an ideal resource for courses on reading/literacy methods and academic literacy, and it is highly relevant to all educators who aim to cultivate thoughtful readers and powerful learners. By equipping teachers with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need, this book plays a vital role in enhancing students' academic success and preparing them for the challenges of the 21st century.

Weight: 388g
Dimension: 151 x 228 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032386881