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Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading
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Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Readingby Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman
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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful: A must for language teachers, February 23, 2006 Reviewer:Diana Dillingham "HW" (NY, USA) - Chapter 2& 3 provide good guidelines/advice for classroom teachers as well as school administers/educators.
Book Description
Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas.
About The Author
HARVEY DANIELS has been a city and suburban classroom teacher, and now serves as professor of reading, language, secondary education and interdisciplinary studies at National-Louis University in Chicago. In language arts, Smokey is best known for his work on student book clubs, as recounted in literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and his new title, Minilessons for literature Circles. Daniels is also co-author of Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, which shows how students can better understand and remember what they read in science, math, and social studies, as well as English classes. Bringing together recent comprehension research with practical classroom strategies, Subjects Matter shows how schools can grow lifelong readers across the curriculum. Smokey also co-wrote A Community of Writers, which describes a balanced writing program, blending strong teacher-directed lessons with genuinely student STEVEN ZEMELMAN is Director of Professional Development at leadership for Quality Education, a school-reform organization in Chicago, and also directs the Illinois Writing Project. Together, Daniels and Zemelman have written or coauthored five books and videos with Heinemann, including Subjects Matter (2004), Rethinking High School and its companion video (2001), and A Community of Writers (1988).
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