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Presenting a snapshot of how adolescents learn, Roberta L Sejnost and Sharon M Thiese offer research-based best practices and strategies that enable teachers tincrease student learning by more effectively integrating reading, writing, and critical thinking inttheir content instruction Building Content Literacy: Strategies for the Adolescent Learner begins with a discussion of the challenges of teaching adolescents and follows with: - Strategies tfoster acquisition of specialized and technical content vocabulary - Specific processes and skills students may use tcomprehend narrative and expository texts - A variety of writing-to-learn strategies Speaking-to-learn strategies Finally, the authors consider the challenges that face students in the age of technology and address the new literacies that can be utilized tengage students and increase learning
