Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts: Reading in the Secondary Content Areas

by Lois Matz Rosen, Marilyn J. Wilson, Reade Dornan

Book Overview

Although there are plenty of professional books on reading in the content areas, most ignore theory, opting instead to include strategies that confuse rather than enlighten. Furthermore, such texts rarely make adequate connections between reading and writing as well as reading and language acquisition--and they disregard linguistic diversity altogether. This book is different. Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts provides a thorough grounding in the principles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0867094176
• ISBN13: 9780867094176
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

Very Practical

This is an excellent book for teachers in all content areas, as it provides several useful and effective content-area reading strategies. There are specific strategies that can be used to prepare students for reading text, assist them during the reading, and engage them in post-reading activities. The book is clearly written and written with passion.

Very Practical

This is an excellent book for teachers in all content areas. The book offers several strategies to prepare students before reading a text, to assist them during reading, and to engage them in postreading activities. The strategies can be applied to several grade levesl, including college. Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts is clearly written and written with passion. Congratulations to the authors--I HIGHLY recommend this text.

Great resource for English Teachers

Marilyn Wilson was one of my favorite professors here at MSU, so perhaps I'm a little biased. But this is an extremely useful text, incorporating the ideas of three very intelligent English teachers that is heavy on theory, but doesn't forget about real world applications. Methodology and theory mixed together well.