Improving Adolescent Literacy 4th edition

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Practical, straightforward, and affordable, this guide gives middle and secondary school teachers the tools they need to support their students? comprehension and success in literacy and in content area learning. The classroom-proven strategies and procedures included are taken from the authors? and their colleagues? experience in middle and secondary classrooms. Each chapter opens with a vignette from an actual classroom to show readers effective teaching in action and to give them a look at how the chapter?s instructional approach works within content area teaching. Research-based rationales for each strategy follow the vignettes and provide an in-depth look at how to implement the strategy, along with examples of each strategy across the curriculum. The Pearson eText features embedded video. 

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