Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content - Area Reading

Grades 7-12

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.

• 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 books of interest to teenagers
• 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.