Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence

Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence

by William G. Brozo PhD
Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence

Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence

by William G. Brozo PhD

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Overview

Well established as a clear, comprehensive course text in five prior editions, this book has now been extensively revised, with a focus on disciplinary literacy. It offers a research-based framework for helping students in grades 6–12 learn to read, write, and communicate academic content and to develop the unique literacy, language, and problem-solving skills required by the different disciplines. In an engaging, conversational style, William G. Brozo presents effective instruction and assessment practices. Special attention is given to adaptations to support diverse populations, including English language learners. Pedagogical features include chapter-opening questions plus new case studies, classroom dialogues, practical examples, sample forms, and more. (Prior edition title: Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents, Fifth Edition.)

New to this Edition:
*Incorporates a decade of research, current standards, and the latest concepts and practices related to disciplinary literacy.
*Chapter on culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
*Expanded coverage of the use of technology and multiple text sources, such as graphic novels and digital texts.
*Increased attention to academic vocabulary and language.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781462530106
Publisher: Guilford Publications, Inc.
Publication date: 04/06/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 430
File size: 5 MB
Age Range: 11 - 18 Years

About the Author

William G. Brozo, PhD, is Professor of Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. A former secondary school teacher, he is the author of numerous articles and books on the literacy development of children and adolescents, and is a contributing author to iLit, a digital intervention program for struggling readers. Dr. Brozo has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and authored the “Strategic Moves” column for the international journal Thinking Classroom and the “Content Literacy” column for The Reading Teacher. He is a past member of the Commission on Adolescent Literacy and the Adolescent Literacy Committee of the International Literacy Association (ILA), as well as past chair of the ILA's PISA/PIRLS Task Force. 
 
 

Table of Contents

1. Adolescent Literacies and Identities Inside and Outside of School
2. Building Literacy Competence across the Disciplines for Diverse Learners
3. Practices for Expanding Text Comprehension
4. Assessment for Literacy Growth and Disciplinary Learning
5. Creating Motivating Contexts for Literacy and Learning
6. Developing Academic Vocabulary Knowledge
7. Writing to Learn in the Disciplines
8. Reading and Learning from Multiple Sources
9. Strategic Literacy and Learning Processes References
 

Interviews


Teacher educators and students; also of interest to secondary reading specialists and classroom teachers. Serves as a text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Adolescent Literacy, Content Area Literacy, and Disciplinary Literacy.
 

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