reading (secondary)

A guide for reading/writing instructors discussing the how-tos of helping students choose topics that are important to them, prompting initial responses to literature, using writing as a tool for thinking and inquiring, improving poor student research writing, and planning curriculums that focus on story.

Offers teachers a variety of practical strategies designed to help them assist middle and high school students who struggle with reading and writing.

Features a collection of tips, or reminders, designed to help instructors teach reading, each with a brief explanation of why the idea or activity is important, and suggestions for classroom practice; and includes reproducible forms.

Offers advice to educators on how to improve the literacy skills of middle and high school students by incorporating literacy-based learning experiences across the curriculum, stressing independent reading, designing and using interventions, and taking advantage of teacher-enrichment resources.

Describes a learning-centered approach to reading designed to help students of all abilities meet the demands of reading higher-level texts as they progress through school.

Examines how teachers can improving literacy in middle school and high school students; discussing student motivation, engagement, and achievement; integrating literacy across the curriculum; interventions for struggling readers and writers; and support from the school, parents, community, and district; and describing a school wide action plan.

Offers instruction to teachers on how to engage students in active learning activities, discussing the theory behind active learning, and featuring twelve literature-based lesson plans.

Presents a discussion of content-area reading, providing tools and structures teachers may use to get students interested in reading and to help them understand what they read by incorporating newspapers, magazines, Web sties, and nonfiction trade books across the curriculum.

Presents practical, research-based reading strategies designed to help older students master necessary literacy skills, focusing on six essential foundations needed for effective reading.