It's hard to motivate discouraged and disengaged students. Helping these students meet today's tougher educational standards can be an even bigger challenge.
Paving the Way in Reading and Writing: Strategies and Activities to Support Struggling Students in Grades 6-12 offers secondary teachers across the content areas an opportunity to engage their students with a different approach to reading and writing, thus boosting their potential for success. Author Larry Lewin, a former teacher, presents an arsenal of practical instructional strategies, tools, techniques and activities for helping students improve their comprehension of informational and literary text, as well as strengthen written communication.
Activities combining reading and writing tasks are emphasized - along with graphic exercises for engaging the more visually oriented students. The book provides guidance on using the computer as a literacy tool and on improving students' grammar, spelling and research skills. Extensive listings of Web-based instructional resources are also featured.
The book costs $21.95. For more information, visit the publisher's website [www.josseybass.com] or call (800) 956-7739.
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