Ebook: 50 instructional routines to develop content literacy

Adjunct displays -- Annotation -- Anticipation guides -- Close reading -- Collaborative conversations -- Conversation roundtable -- Debate -- Directed reading-thinking activity -- Exit slips -- Fishbowl discussions -- Found poems -- Generative reading -- Guest speakers -- Independent reading -- Interest surveys, questionnaires, and interviews -- Jigsaw -- KWL -- Language experience approach -- Mnemonics -- Modeling comprehension -- Opinionnaire -- Popcorn review -- Question-answer relationship -- Questioning the author -- RAFT writing -- Read-alouds -- Readers' theatre -- Read-write-pair-share -- Reciprocal teaching -- ReQuest -- Response writing -- Shades of meaning -- Shared reading -- Socratic seminar -- Split-page notetaking -- Student booktalks -- Student questions for purposeful learning -- Take 6 -- Test-dependent questions -- Text impressions -- Text structures -- Think-alouds -- Tossed terms -- Vocabulary cards -- Vocabulary self-awareness -- Word grids/semantic feature analysis -- Word scavenger hunts -- Word sorts -- Word walls -- Writing frames and templates.;Some of the best-known authors in the field come together to provide teachers with fifty step-by-step procedures for implementing content area instructional routines to improve students' literacy skills. 50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy, 3/e helps adolescents to become more successful readers. Middle and high school teachers can immediately put to use its practical information and classroom examples from science, social studies, English, math, the visual and performing arts, and core electives to improve students' reading, writing, and oral language development. Going above and beyond basic classroom strategies, the instructional routines recommend simple changes to teachers' everyday instruction that foster student comprehension, such as thinking aloud, using question-answer relationships, and teaching with word walls.