Reading to Learn: Reading Across Content Areas
Related Online Articles
Please Note: Some of the suggested articles are available on the Internet only on a fee basis. They are included here because they are of high-quality and as such, may be of interest to readers.
Content Area Textbooks: Friends or Foes?
Patricia Teft Cousin
http://reading.indiana.edu/www/indexdb.html
This ERIC digest summarizes research on what makes textbooks more understandable and supportive to students in learning contexts.
Learning to Read….Reading to Learn: Helping Children with Learning Disabilities to Succeed
The National Center to Improve the Tools for Educators
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/ltr-cec/ltr4-cec.html
This tip sheet for teachers provides educators guidance on helping children build a successful foundation for reading across the content areas.
Metacognition and Reading to Learn
Norma Decker Collins
http://ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed376427.html
In this ERIC digest, Collins offers guidance on how teachers can help their students take an active and reflective role in learning content.
Reading to Learn in Vermont
Nick Boke
Supporting Young Adolescents' Literacy Learning: A Joint Position Paper of the International Reading Association and National Middle School Association
http://www.reading.org/positions/supporting_young
_adolesc.html
This policy statement stresses the need to provide "continuous reading instruction for all young adolescents."
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