Product Information:
Price: $18.00
Format: Softcover
Audience: Teachers, Teacher Educators, Students
Pages: 304
Publisher: WestEd and Jossey-Bass
Copyright: 2003
ISBN: 978-0-7879-6555-6
Order #: READ-03-01

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Building Academic Literacy: An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship

Edited by: Audrey Fielding, Ruth Schoenbach

This is a themed anthology for middle and high school students, inviting them to explore topics related to literacy, including questions of why and how we read, the connections between literacy, personal empowerment, and life achievement, and what it takes to read and understand different types of texts. This volume is a companion to Building Academic Literacy: Lessons From Reading Apprenticeship Classrooms, Grades 6-12.

Featuring lively and inspiring essays, journalistic writings, poetry, and personal stories, the volume contains selections at varied levels of reading difficulty and offers diverse cultural and historical perspectives. Created as a foundational student text for course units based on the model Academic Literacy curriculum described in Reading for Understanding: A Guide to Improving Reading in Middle and High School Classrooms (cowritten by WestEd's Ruth Schoenbach, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Lori Hurwitz — Jossey-Bass, 1999), the anthology appeals to disengaged readers whether they are struggling or advanced and can serve as an invaluable resource in any English/language arts classroom, grades 6-12.