Author Description

* Focuses on content classrooms at the middle and high school levels. * Introduces the Content Literacy Model. * Offers authentic assessment strategies for content classes. * Suggests ideas for building classroom environments which build a positive affect in students and permit scheduling of numerous content literacy activities. * Features a special chapter showing how mastering the writing process can help students become better readers aqnd comprehenders of content materials. * Includes a unique chapter demonstrating the many benefits and uses of fiction, non-ficition, and various media in subject matter classes. * Discusses "how to teach" literacy skills as you teach content: Presents suggestions that are innovative, and exciting as well as the more traditional teaching methods and strategies which have proven effective for content studies. * Includes a Learners With Special Needs section at the end of each chapter. * Guided Action Research Project (GARP) - outlines a systematic method for trying out ideas described in the text. * Chapter Organization * Begins each chapter with a visual organizer for the chapter, followed by a series of Focus Questions. * Concludes each chapter with a series of Reflection/Application activities * Lists Recommended Readings