reading (secondary)

Provides enactment techniques that help students apply their social, physical, and intellectual selves to the books they read to help improve their comprehension.

Discusses how to improve literacy and reading comprehension skills in adolescent African-American males, emphasizing the importance of choosing useful texts, and providing suggested titles, sample lessons, and more.

CD-ROM includes video clips, performance booklets, summary sheets, annotated bibliography on IRIs.

Describes strategies secondary teachers may use to help students become engaged, strategic readers, discussing the need to build on students' assets, differentiate instruction, and facilitate cooperative learning.

Contains a guide to assessing literacy for pre-primary through twelfth grade students, including reproducible word lists, reading passages, and early literacy assessments.

A guide to teaching reading in the content areas that presents a wide variety of successful strategies for incorporating reading and literacy skills in the content areas.

Offers advice to school library media specialists on how to help in efforts to develop students' literary skills, featuring nine reading and vocabulary strategies for middle and high school students, reproducible charts, tables, and graphic organizers, and assessment tools.

Contains twenty-four foreign film guides for use in sixth to twelfth grade English classes, discussing how each film will encourage reading through their subtitles and interesting plots, giving an overview of each film, and providing vocabulary and activities.