Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?

by Rachel Billmeyer, Mary Lee Barton

Make the teaching of reading a practical goal in every subject with the principles and strategies from this book. Based on three interactive elements that apply to every reading situation, the authors explain: *Why it's good to always relate new vocabulary to the concepts you want students to learn. *How to ask questions so students will make inferences and perceive relationships in what they read. *Whether to use a guided or a reflective discussion to promote understanding Why identifying text structure should never be an important outcome of reading.

Genres: Education

172 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 1998

Reviews

[Hayley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good strategies

[jacky · Rating 4 out of 5]

When I took a class with my district literacy specailist, she photocopied for us a lot of this book. What I really liked about it was that it was set up so that implementing the different ideas was like following directions, but it wasn't scripted. It made it very easy to give the ideas a try unlike other books where you need to figure out exactly how you are going to try it out.

[Laurel · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book and its companion, which I can't find, saved my life. it's FILLED with concrete ways to help kids realize that reading is an active process and involves thinking if it's not going to be boring.

[Carmen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not only did this book have some specific suggestions, it included graphic organizers and examples of how they were used. I have to admit though, that I was happy to discover how many of these suggestions I was already using.

[Samantha · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was useful and covered some practical strategies for teaching reading in the content areas but it wasn't as fun to read or well-developed as many of the other books on teaching that I've read.

[Simon · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a textbook for school so I did not expect much. It will help with the class.