Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading Review

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(More customer reviews)Daniels and Zemelman use humor, practical suggestions, and research to get their point across. If you are looking for NCA or NCLB interventions for improving reading in a specific or all content areas, this book has plenty of material! They include examples, book lists, and classroom best practices as well as discussion of the use or non-use of a textbook. These practices are known quantities, research-supported and all have been used by the authors or by those interviewed for this book. Ta-da, it's all in here!

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Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman, authors of a dozen influential books on literacy and cofounders of Best Practice High School, bring their trademark style-teacher friendly and kid wise-to the reality of today's middle and high schools.
Their book features:
23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more
a tough analysis of today's textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively
a new "balanced diet" of reading, including 150 real books of interest to teenage readers
instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area
plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline
group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers
a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think
models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues
special help and materials for students who struggle
scientific proof that the book's recommended activities do improve reading and learning.
Punctuated by stories from real math, science, social studies, and other classrooms, Subjects Matter shows how young people can read and succeed across the curriculum, and how their teachers can help.

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