Daniels, Harvey

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.

Contains over seventy-five articles with twenty-three comprehension lessons, ten text set lessons, and collaboration strategies designed to improve content-area reading skills of students.

Presents forty-five short, practical lessons for literature circles and includes student examples, reproducible forms, recommended reading lists, and strategies for encouraging reading among students.

A guide to forming, managing, and assessing peer-led book discussion groups that provides strategies, structures, tools, and stories which demonstrate how to launch a guide successful literature circles.