Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts: Strategies for Grades 6-12

Middle and high school students must engage with challenging texts in every content area to develop strong disciplinary literacy skills. This book provides a blueprint for constructing literacy-rich instructional units, teaching research-based comprehension strategies, and guiding effective discussions and text-based writing activities. It also covers how to teach students to write argumentative, informative, and narrative essays and conduct discipline-specific inquiry. Special features include sample text sets and 24 reproducible planning templates.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 288 pages
\n Publication date: 22 December 2020
\n Publisher: Guilford Publications
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Middle and high school students must engage with a variety of difficult texts across all content areas to develop strong disciplinary literacy skills. This book offers a guide for creating literacy-rich instructional units in English language arts, science, and social studies. The authors explain how to design interconnected text sets and plan lessons that support learning and engagement before, during, and after reading. Various strategies are presented to build academic vocabulary and background knowledge, teach research-based comprehension strategies, and facilitate effective discussions and text-based writing activities. Chapters also cover teaching students to write argumentative, informative, and narrative essays, as well as conducting discipline-specific inquiry. Special features include sample text sets, 24 reproducible planning templates, and other teaching tools. Purchasers can access a web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2 x 11 size.

\n Weight: 538g\n
Dimension: 178 x 253 x 20 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781462544684\n \n