Description: In today's classroom, helping students use and understand what they read is an important part of every teacher's job - not just those specifically teaching language arts. Written for content area teachers in middle and secondary schools, this book offers a wealth of specific strategies and examples they can use to integrate key reading, writing, and study skills into their teaching. The authors take a balanced reading approach, providing specific suggestions for direct teaching as well as many opportunities for cooperative or group learning. They describe the comprehension, writing, and study processes in detail and show how these processes relate to specific content areas. The second edition of this book offers two unique chapters that both in-service and pre-service teachers will appreciate. The authors have added a chapter on multicultural literature and teens (Chapter 11) and one on children with special needs (Chapter 12). Chapter 11 includes a list of teenagers' favorite books and an extensive bibliography of multicultural reading selections (organized by cultural group), along with suggestions for using them. Chapter 12 discusses health and safety obstacles to school success and their impact on learning, as well as the ways in which the language uses of multicultural groups can interfere with learning. Classroom adjustments for students with other special needs are also discussed.

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