Reading in Secondary Content Areas: A Language-Based Pedagogy - Brossura

Zhihui, Fang; Schleppegrell, Mary J.

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ISBN 10: 0472032798 ISBN 13: 9780472032792

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2008

Riassunto

What does it mean to teach reading in the context of the middle and high school classroom? Don’t students already know how to read by the time they get to secondary school? And how can a busy teacher take time away from the packed curriculum of science, history, mathematics, or language arts to teach reading?

This book presents a linguistic approach to teaching reading in different subjects; an approach that focuses on language itself. Central to this approach is a view that knowledge is constructed in and through language and that language changes with changes in knowledge. As students move from elementary to secondary schools, they encounter specialized knowledge and engage in new contexts of learning in all subjects. This means that the language of secondary school learning is quite different from the language of the elementary years. While in the elementary years the subject matter of reading materials is often close to students’ everyday life experiences, the curriculum of secondary school deals with knowledge that is removed from students’ personal lives and everyday contexts. The language that constructs this more specialized knowledge thus tends to be more abstract, technical, information-laden, and hierarchically organized than the more familiar and “friendly” language that students typically encounter during the elementary years. Students need to develop specialized literacies (literacy relevant to each content area) as well as a critical literacy they can use across subject areas to engage with, reflect on, and assess specialized and advanced knowledge.

This functional language analysis approach is shown using actual secondary social studies, science, and math textbooks and using a literary text.

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Teaching reading in K-12 content classes? As students progress from elementary to secondary school and beyond, the reading skills required to address the increasingly advanced and specialized subject areas can vary considerably. Students need to develop specialized literacies (relevant to each content area) as well as a critical literacy they can use across subject areas.This text book presents teachers, administrators, and researchers with a linguistic approach to teaching reading in different subject areas - an approach that focuses on language itself. Central to this approach is a view that knowledge is constructed in and through language and that language changes with changes in knowledge. This functional language analysis approach is shown using actual secondary social studies, science, and math textbooks and using a literary text.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0472032798
• ISBN 13: 9780472032792
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 135
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile