Product Description

Lively, practical, and irreverent, Subjects Matter points the way to activities and materials that energize content and engage students across all subject areas.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #86225 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Harvey Daniels has been a city and suburban classroom teacher and a college professor, and now works as a national consultant and author on literacy education. In language arts, Smokey is known for his pioneering work on student book clubs, as recounted in Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in Book Clubs and Reading Groups, and Minilessons for Literature Circles. Smokey has recently coauthored two bestselling books on content-area literacy: Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, and the companion volume, Content-Area Writing: Every Teacher's Guide. He is also coauthor of Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools. Daniels works with elementary and secondary teachers throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, offering demonstration lessons, workshops, and consulting, with a special focus on creating, sustaining, and renewing student-centered inquiries and discussions of all kinds. Smokey shows colleagues how

Steven Zemelman has worked in many capacities to promote the sustainability of innovative schools in Chicago. For eight years he directed the Center for City Schools at National-Louis University, and he is a founding director of the Illinois Writing Project. He has spearheaded the start of a number of innovative small high schools in the city. And he now helps guide the Chicago Schools Alliance, a network of diverse Chicago schools learning to work together in new ways to strengthen teaching and learning, build teacher leadership, and reduce the isolation that schools and teachers so often experience. His exerpiences and research in these areas led to his latest Heinemann book13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment coauthored with Harry Ross.coauthored with Harry Ross. Steve has been a frequent collaborator with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels. They have coauthored six books and videos with Heinemann, including Best Practice: Today's Standards for Teaching and Learning in America's Schools, T

Customer Reviews

Great guide to Reading in all subjects!
Daniels and Zemelman use humor, practical suggestions, and research to get their point across. If you are looking for NCA or NCLB interventions for improving reading in a specific or all content areas, this book has plenty of material! They include examples, book lists, and classroom best practices as well as discussion of the use or non-use of a textbook. These practices are known quantities, research-supported and all have been used by the authors or by those interviewed for this book. Ta-da, it's all in here!

Help for Content Area Teachers
If you worry that your students "just aren't getting the text," here is help for you.

This book is an easy guide for content area teachers to use to help when teaching their subjects. Strategies for before, during and after reading are given.

There are ideas to help you find other sources of information to supplement the text and give students more choices in their learning.

This is an excellent book for all teachers.

What a helpful book!
This book is very readable and user-friendly. Daniels offers up a treasure trove of helpful ideas for teachers; especially beginners or those with classrooms filled with students who don't like to read.
I recommend this book highly for all secondary level teachers.