Description
Book Features:
- Strategies to deepen teachers' awareness of disciplinary text, practices, and habits of mind to inform the ways they model, teach, and invite literacy into their classrooms.
- Activities to support students in developing the meta-discursive awareness that allows them to navigate the texts of different disciplines.
- Guidance to intentionally and expertly develop multiple literacies that create equity, choice, and access for all learners.
- Exercises and examples appropriate for educators entering the field, as well as veterans who want to revitalize their instruction or prepare for new content, courses, or grade levels.
About the Author
Rachael Gabriel is a professor of literacy education in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.
Reviews
"Gabriel (Univ. of Connecticut) supplies secondary-education graduate students with a degree of meta-discursive awareness to enable them to function in the classroom with the changing demands of reading, writing, and communication. The conclusion provides a good summary of the implications of disciplinary literacy."-CHOICE
Book Information
ISBN 9780807768600
Author Rachael Gabriel
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Teachers' College Press
Publisher Teachers' College Press
Weight(grams) 272g