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

Product Description	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 More than 250,000 copies of books in these popular series have been sold to educators nationwide. Read how one school, Shiprock (N.M.) High School, used this series to raise the achievement of its at-risk students.
Authors	Rachel Billmeyer & Mary Lee Barton
Target Audience	Grades 4-12 teachers Reading specialists
Ways to Use this Product	As a tool for self-guided professional development tool or as the basis for a staff development using our accompanying Blackline Masters. Click here to learn about McREL's related workshops.
Key Ideas	The authors provide 40 innovative instructional strategies to improve students’ understanding when reading for content.
How to Get this Product	Order from ASCD. Contact the ASCD Call Service Center at 800-933-2723 between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, or order online from the ASCD website. Blackline Masters also are available.
APA Citation	Billmeyer, R., & Barton, M. L. (2002). Teaching reading in the content areas: If not me, then who? 2nd ed. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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