Description
| Product ID: | 9781032386881 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Demystifying Academic Reading |
| Subtitle: | A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Reading Across Content Areas |
| Authors: | Author: Zhihui Fang |
| Page Count: | 250 |
| Subjects: | Bilingualism and multilingualism, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Literature: history and criticism, Communication studies, Moral and social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Primary and middle schools, Secondary schools, Teacher training, Teaching of a specific subject, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, Educational material, Literature: history & criticism, Communication studies, Moral & social purpose of education, Multicultural education, Primary & middle schools, Secondary schools, Teacher training, Teaching of a specific subject, Teachers' classroom resources & material, Educational material |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Foundational and accessible, this book equips pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, and tools they need to help students in grades 4 – 12 develop reading proficiency in the core academic subjects of literature, history, science, and mathematics. Foundational and accessible, this book equips pre-service and practicing teachers with the knowledge, understanding, tools, and resources they need to help students in grades 4–12 develop reading proficiencies in four core academic subjects—literature, history, science, and mathematics. Applying a disciplinary literacy approach, Fang describes the verbal and visual resources, expert strategies, inquiry skills, and habits of mind that students must learn in order to read carefully, critically, purposefully, and with an informed skepticism across genres and content areas. He also shows how teachers can promote language learning and reading/literacy development at the same time that they engage students in content area learning. With informative synthesis and research-based recommendations in every chapter, this text prepares teachers to help students develop discipline-specific, as well as discipline-relevant, discursive insights, literacy strategies, and ways of thinking, reasoning, and inquiring that are essential to productive learning across academic subjects. It also provides teacher educators with approaches and strategies for helping teacher candidates develop expertise in academic reading instruction. In so doing, the book demystifies academic reading, revealing what it takes for students to read increasingly complex academic texts with confidence and understanding and for teachers to develop expertise that promotes disciplinary literacy. This state-of-the-art text is ideal for courses on reading/literacy methods and academic literacy and eminently relevant to all educators who want their students to become thoughtful readers and powerful learners |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-29 |
