Help! My College Students Can’t Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas

Amelia Leighton Gamel

doi:10.5771/9781475814583

Summary

Help! My College Students Can’t Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas is designed as a resource guide for content area instructors who have no specific training in the field of literacy but want to help the struggling readers in their classrooms. This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without sacrificing a lot of valuable class time. This easy-to-use resource will equip instructors to not only help their students be stronger readers in general, but to be stronger readers of content-area academic texts.

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Copyright Year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-1457-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-1458-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 172
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1 Active Reading No access Pages 1 - 25
2 Determining a Purpose No access Pages 26 - 49
3 Determining What’s Important No access Pages 50 - 72
4 Developing Higher-Level Questions No access Pages 73 - 92
5 Making Connections No access Pages 93 - 112
6 Navigating Unknown Words No access Pages 113 - 137
7 Creating Visuals to Enhance Comprehension and Recall No access Pages 138 - 158
8 Keeping It Real No access Pages 159 - 167
References No access Pages 168 - 170
About the Author No access Pages 171 - 172