
The text highlights issues of comprehension, vocabulary development, assessment, and second language. In addition, it addresses issues of diversity and ELL students, approaches for sheltered instruction, and the integration of technology into secondary learning and teaching,...


This book presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. Its major focus is classroom instruction which teaches content knowledge and supports students' literacy abilities in the content areas. It also gives teachers sound, theory-based...

With the passage of the "No Child Left Behind" act, and increasing pressures on teachers and administrators to produce results, true literacy is no longer optional. This book provides educators and education students with the classroom tested theories and practices needed to...