content area reading

Offers an annotated list of picture books on various educational topics that can be used by students in forth through twelfth grade for research or interest-building tools; and provides publisher information, suggestions for related activities, and more.

Presents a guide to using literature in the middle school classroom curriculum, including information on how to making reading fun and relevant for children, with a discussion of real life topics to engage students, and proposing an interdisciplinary approach to teaching.

Describes strategies teachers can use to help their students understand the reading in any curriculum area, and includes examples and stories from high school classrooms, and examples of student work.

Offers advice to literacy coaches and teachers on how to use read alouds to help students become skilled readers and writers, featuring tutorials based on favorite picture books, discussing the importance of tone, intensity, pacing, and mood in reading aloud, and including a companion DVD.

Describes the benefits of read-aloud instruction in math, social studies, language arts, and science, and explains how to implement it, providing twelve units--three in each subject area--with summaries of over four hundred recommended titles.