Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum [Paperback] 9e by Richard T. Vacca

Product details

Brand New

Paperback : 512 pages
ISBN-13 : 9780205636587
ISBN-10 : 0205636586
Product dimensions : 19.1 x 1.9 x 23.3 cm
Publisher : Pearson (15 Aug. 2008) 9th Ed
Language: : English

 

Description

Content Area Reading remains the market-leading text in content literacy and maintains the authors' original objective―to offer an ambitious, coherent, and workable exploration of content literacy. The Ninth Edition comes at a perfect time when there is an increased focus on adolescent literacy. With the point of view that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, respected authors Rich and Jo Anne Vacca have written this book to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Thoroughly updated and revised to incorporate topics that touch on contemporary issues such as content standards, assessment, diversity, struggling readers, the No Child Left Behind Legislation, Reading First, and Reading Next, the book continues to provide a framework that focuses on the ability to use reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum. Accessible and comprehensible, this text takes students through the entire reading process using simple, jargon-free terminology. The methodology presented develops a foundation that can be applied across disciplines, meeting the needs of all students.