Ebook: Learning Vital Reading Strategies : A Workbook for Students

Learning Vital Reading Strategies: A Workbook for Students is designed as a resource guide for content area instructors who have no specific training in the field of literacy but want to help the struggling readers in their classrooms. This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without sacrificing a lot of valuable class time. This easy-to-use resource will equip instructors to not only help their students be stronger readers in general, but to be stronger readers of content-area academic texts. Special features in each chapter: A Toolbox that includes concrete teaching ideas and resources directly related to the specific reading strategy discussed in the chapter.A Putting It to Work section that provides a detailed lesson or classroom activity that can be adapted for nearly any subject area.A Professional Spotlight that features interviews from professionals who discuss the reading demands in their fields and the importance of graduates entering careers with strong reading skills.An appendix that includes reproducible materials"