Building Academic Literacy
Subtitle: Lessons from Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12 (Jossey Bass Education Series)
Contributors: Ruth Schoenbach (Editor); Marean Jordan (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: April 22, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780787965563
Subjects: English language: reading skills; Reading Skills; Secondary schools; Teaching of a specific subject; United States; Secondary; Education / Teaching; Reading Education (General); Secondary School Language Arts; Social aspects; English; Education; Literacy; Teaching Methods & Materials - Classroom Planning; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Education / General; Case studies; Curricula; Developmental reading; Reading (Secondary)
First sentence: In the current era of high-stakes testing, conversations about the challenge of improving literacy for middle school and high school youth have become increasingly urgent.