Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading | 
 enlarge | Authors: Harvey Daniels, Steven Zemelman
Publisher: Heinemann
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 7279
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0325005958
Dewey Decimal Number: 428.40712
EAN: 9780325005959
ASIN: 0325005958
Publication Date: February 12, 2004
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Product Description
Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math, science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas. Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman, authors of a dozen influential books on literacy and cofounders of Best Practice High School, bring their trademark styleteacher friendly and kid wiseto the reality of today's middle and high schools. Their book features: - 23 practical classroom activities that help students understand and remember what they read, in mathematics, science, social studies, English, and more
- a tough analysis of today's textbooks, along with specific ways to use them more effectively
- a new "balanced diet" of reading, including 150 real books of interest to teenage readers
- instructions for growing a rich classroom library in your subject area
- plans for setting up student book clubs and reading groups in any discipline
- group-building techniques that create a productive community of readers
- a do-it-yourself exploration of the ways smart readers think
- models for developing ambitious thematic units within your classroom or with colleagues
- special help and materials for students who struggle
- scientific proof that the book's recommended activities do improve reading and learning.
Punctuated by stories from real math, science, social studies, and other classrooms, Subjects Matter shows how young people can read and succeed across the curriculum, and how their teachers can help.
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 Help for Content Area Teachers June 26, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
If you worry that your students "just aren't getting the text," here is help for you.
This book is an easy guide for content area teachers to use to help when teaching their subjects. Strategies for before, during and after reading are given.
There are ideas to help you find other sources of information to supplement the text and give students more choices in their learning.
This is an excellent book for all teachers.
 Overall good resource to help student read May 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was assigned this book while obtaining my teaching certificate in college. It has useful strategies for helping student learn to read different types of books but the authors assume the teachers have extra time in class to teach these tactics. Unfortunately, most high school teachers are hampered by the amount of information to teach in their subject areas that it is difficult to implement the book's suggestions. Teachers can help those students during tutoring which makes the book useful.
A review from a person who HATES to read January 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is a must for anyone who thinks reading is for language arts. I hate to read 99.999998% of books. This book hits every area that causes me to hate reading. It's a must read for teachers and those that hate reading. It gives referances of what some might like as to what people like me need to think about in choosing a book. (btw I am a student teacher of math)
What a helpful book! January 24, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is very readable and user-friendly. Daniels offers up a treasure trove of helpful ideas for teachers; especially beginners or those with classrooms filled with students who don't like to read.
I recommend this book highly for all secondary level teachers.
Great read for teachers concerned with literacy December 12, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
From the first chapter on I really enjoyed reading this book. The fact the authors are both educators allow them to include numerous anecdotes from their time spent inside and outside the classroom. Even though I am an English teacher I appreciated how this book covered all subjects.
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