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Improving Adolescent Literacy
Content Area Strategies at Work, by D. Fisher & N. Frey
Professional Book Project by Jenna Brooks, READ 6418 student at East Carolina University
This resource was designed by a teacher to be used along with Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's book, Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work.
Fisher, D., & Frey, N. (2012). Improving adolescent literacy: Content area strategies at work.Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
Meet the Authors: Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey
Douglas Fisher, Ph.D.
Email: dfisher@mail.sdsu.edu
Website: fisherandfrey.com
Phone: 619-594-2507
Nancy Frey, Ph.D.
Email: nfrey@mail.sdsu.edu
Phone: 619-594-3355
About the Text
Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work
This book is designed to helps teachers assist their students with Reading in the Content areas, with a particular focus on middle and high school students. The book offers the support that teachers need in order to improve student success in literacy across the curriculum. Classroom-proven strategies are provided from both the authors' and their colleagues' experience in middle school and secondary classrooms. A review of Table of Contents helps to prepare readers by familiarizing the structured use of headings to provide very specific information.
Each chapter begins with a story from an actual classroom and provides an opportunity for readers to connect and visualize effective teaching. The classroom story example prepares readers to understand how the chapter's instructional approach work within content area teaching. The research-based strategies in each chapter are applied to all content areas, and each strategy also features ideas for working with English language learners and struggling readers.