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Content Area Reading: Teaching and Learning for College and Career Readiness, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (August 13, 2014) © 2015

  • Maureen McLaughlin

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  • Special features focus on issues of importance to content area teachers, including:
    • Teaching Idea icons in chapter margins highlight practical strategies that can be used across content areas.
      • Specific to fostering students’ comprehension, the Teaching Ideas feature five stops of explicit instruction: 1) explain, 2) demonstrate, 3) guide, 4) practice, and 5) reflect.
      • Student artifacts, student dialogues, and student writing samples show real-life application of the Teaching Ideas.
    • Chapter Overviews highlight the key questions addressed within each chapter and include complete lists of the Teaching Ideas presented in the chapter.
  • Chapter feature streams enhance comprehension by “making the connection”:
    • Making Connections to Multiple Literacies links chapter topics to aspects of different literacies, including adolescent literacy, discipline-specific literacies, critical literacy, information literacy, media literacy, and multicultural literacy.
    • Making Connections to Struggling Readers applies chapter topics to issues associated with struggling readers.
    • Making Connections to English Learners explores issues related to teaching English language learners.
    • Making Connections to Study Skills associates chapter topics with ideas for teaching study skills to support student learning.
    • Making Connections boxes encourage students to actively engage in learning by posing a question and asking for readers to think about a response and share ideas with a small group.
  • E-Links, annotated weblinks at the end of every chapter, present opportunities for exploring chapter topics in greater depth.
  • Accountable Talk provides ideas for small group discussions.
  • Portfolio/Performance Opportunity at the end of each chapter helps assess performance that, when completed, may be included in the teacher’s course portfolio
  • Appendixes feature practical, reproducible, idea-filled teaching resources supporting a variety of topics addressed throughout the book. Included are:
    • Blackline masters.
    • Discussion Circle Bookmarks.
    • Double Entry Journal formats.
    • Press Conference Checklist.
    • First-Person Experience Rubrics.
    • Form poems.
    • Examples from projects such as the Content Area Resource Anthology, Student-Authored Electronic Books, and Transmediations.
  • NEW! An entirely new chapter on the Common Core emphasizes both the College and Career Readiness Standards and the Common Core State Standards and introduces “rich instructional tasks.”
  • NEW! A new “Making Connections to the Common Core” feature appears throughout the text.
  • NEW! Updated theoretical information, revised websites, and numerous new student examples have been integrated.
  • NEW! The Appendixes have been revitalized to include a variety of new graphic organizers that focus on using multi-modal text and recognizing and creating text structures
  • NEW! New examples of complete student projects have been added to the Appendices.

Brief Table of Contents

  • Chapter 1: Teaching in the 21st Century
  • Chapter 2: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Multiple Literacies
  • Chapter 3: The Common Core State Standards: Teaching and Learning in the Disciplines
  • Chapter 4: Comprehending Content Area Text
  • Chapter 5: Using Comprehension Strategies to Guide Thinking
  • Chapter 6: Using Comprehension Strategies to Extend Thinking
  • Chapter 7: Teaching Vocabulary in the Content Areas
  • Chapter 8: Organizing for Teaching and Learning
  • Chapter 9: Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
  • Chapter 10: Writing in the Content Areas
  • Chapter 11: Using Technology in the Content Areas
  • Chapter 12: Inquiry: Key to Critical and Creative Thinking in the Content Areas
  • Chapter 13: Poetry, Drama, Music, and Art: Alternative Representations of Thinking
  • Chapter 14: Course-Based Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting
  • Chapter 15: Meeting Challenges and Continuing to Learn through Professional Development

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Appendix E

Appendix F

References

Name Index

Subject Index

Maureen McLaughlin is department chair and professor of reading education at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. She earned her doctorate at Boston University in reading and language development. Prior to her tenure at the University, Maureen spent fifteen years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and department chair in a public school system.

Maureen served as the 2013-2014 President of the International Reading Association and was a member of IRA's Board of Directors from 2005-2008. During her time on the Board, Maureen was liaison to a variety of committees, including those focused on Bylaws, Adolescent Literacy, and the Common Core State Standards. She also contributed to a variety of documents and position statements, including the Board of Directors' Code of Conduct and the Conflict of Interest Statement. From 1999-2004, Maureen was a volunteer professor in Estonia for the Association's Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking (RWCT) Project.

Maureen has been a member of several review boards, including those of The Reading Teacher and the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. She has also published numerous chapters and journal articles focused on critical literacy, reading comprehension, and the Common Core State Standards.

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