Reading/Writing Connection, The: Strategies for Teaching and Learning in the Secondary Classroom, 3rd edition
Published by Pearson (June 30, 2010) © 2011
- Carol Booth Olson
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· Practical demonstration lessons in almost every chapter model how to scaffold guided practice activities into coherent lesson sequences, paving the way for teachers to implement theoretically sound, teacher-tested lessons in the classroom.
· Provides student models at middle and high school levels in almost every chapter, illustrating actual student responses to reading and writing activities.
· “Learning Log Reflections” at the end of each chapter invite readers to take a step back and reflect upon what they have learned, providing teachers opportunities to engage in the same cognitive strategies that readers and writers use when they compose.
· Includes literary selections in almost every chapter, giving teachers easy access to the literature featured in the activities and demonstration lessons.
· New demonstration lessons that highlight students showing cognitive strategy use
· More high school examples and references to high school texts throughout the book
· A focus on 21st century literacies throughout the book with specific activities influenced by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills Framework and the 21st Century English Skills Map
· Differentiation activities in several demonstration lessons for different student populations
· An emphasis on cognitive strategy use with non-fiction (Chapter 2)
· Information on brain-based learning (Chapter 5)
· New strategies for interacting with a text (Chapter 6)
· Information on teaching graphic novels (Chapter 7)
· Expanded focus on the multi-genre paper (Chapter 10)
· Cognitive strategies booklets with visuals and more revision strategies (Chapter 11)
· New grammar and vocabulary activities (Chapter 12)
· More discussion on enhancing academic literacy for ELLs (Chapter 13)
· New Book Club strategies (Chapter 14)
· Updated research results on the power of cognitive strategies approach on scientifically-based research (Appendix)
Contents
Chapter 1 What is the Reading/Writing Connection?
Chapter 2 Introducing Students to the Cognitive Strategies in Their Mental Tool Kits
Chapter 3 Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction through Scaffolded Demonstration Lessons
Chapter 4 Connections Affect and Cognition
Chapter 5 A Multiple Intelligence Approach to Language Arts Instruction for Mainstream and English Language Development Classrooms
Chapter 6 Strategies for Interacting with a Text: Using Reading and Writing to Learn
Chapter 7 Teaching Literature: From Reading to Interpretation
Chapter 8 Reading, Thinking, and Writing about Multicultural Literature in Culturally Diverse Classrooms
Chapter 9 Teaching Writing: Helping Students Play the Whole Range
Chapter 10 Alternative Approaches to the Research Paper
Chapter 11 Sharing Our Responses to Texts as Readers and Writers and Revising Meaning
Chapter 12 Correctness Can Be Creative
Chapter 13 Assessing Students’ Reading and Writing in the Classroom
Chapter 14 Cultivating Motivated, Independent Readers and Writers through Reading and Writing Workshop
Carol Booth Olson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education-University of California, Irvine, and the Director of the UCI/California/Writing Project. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature at UCLA in 1977 where she was honored as Outstanding Graduate Women of the Year. She has edited three books, including the best selling California Department of Education publication "Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as a Process" and has written over 30 articles on teaching composition and literature. She has also served as a Senior Consultant to the Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies Textbook series (1997). Dr. Olson has received two Excellence in Teaching awards at UCLA.
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