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Product 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. Celebrating its 30th university, Vacca, Vacca, and new-to-this-edition co-author Mraz, have written this text to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices...read more

Complete with examples and research-based practices, focuses on the ability to use reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum.

[In this text], some of [the] core beliefs about reading and learning to read include the following: children use language to seek and construct meaning from what they read, hear, and view; reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing are interrelated and mutually supporting as children learn and use them; learning to read involves learning how to decode words quickly and accurately; children learn to read as they read to learn, enjoy, communicate, and solve problems; children need to be exposed toa broad spectrum of reading materials and literature, including electronic texts; children develop skills and strategies through explicit instruction and purposeful, meaningful use; children deserve assessment techniques and processes that mirror the authentic ways they demonstrate their continually developing literacy children benefit from classroom communities in which materials, curriculum, instruction, practice, and assessment celebrate their diverse constitutions; teachers, parents, and administrators should make decisions based on how children learn and how they can best be taught. [The text] continues to emphasize a contemporary, balanced approach to teaching reading and writing with a renewed emphasis on integrating technology, accommodating the needs of diverse learners, developing early and beginning readers with a strong focus on phonemic awareness and strategies for teaching phonics, and teaching young adolescents in middle school.-Pref. (view table of contents)

Complete with examples and research-based practices, focuses on the ability to use reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum.

Product Description: With its balanced approach to reading instruction, Reading and Learning to Read, 5/e, remains a comprehensive, active learning tool that encourages students to teach reading in ways that are both meaningful and reflective. Rather than emphasizing a traditional skills-based approach, this book focuses on teaching skills within a meaning-centered approach...read more

Product Description: Celebrating its 25th anniversary, 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)