Product Description

In Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature, Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth demonstrated how to make the read - aloud a strong supporting structure for literacy learning across the day. Now with Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum they reveal how the read - aloud can strengthen students' abilities and achievement in other subject areas.

Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum is a practical guide to expanding your read - aloud instruction to accomplish literacy - based goals in four key subject areas - math, social studies, language arts, and science. You'll find strategic advice for planning thematic, content - driven units that use reading aloud to scaffold understanding and increase engagement. Beginning with smart ideas for introducing students to new content through picture books, Laminack and Wadsworth share ideas for assembling themed sets of children's literature that help kids use the predictable structures of the read - aloud to connect with new ideas. Then Reading - Aloud Across the Curriculum provides suggestions for helping students do research that extends the knowledge they've gotten from whole - class readings and build a bridge from literacy skills to content knowledge. Laminack and Wadsworth give you three specific units of study each for social studies, language arts, science, and even math - twelve units altogether. Each comes with dozens of recommended titles, over 400 in all!

Full of useful planning tips, classroom - tested strategies, and Laminack and Wadsworth's trademark enthusiasm for children's literature, Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum doesn't just pick up where its predecessor left off - it takes you and your students to whole new levels of cross - curricular engagement.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #385225 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
Lester L. Laminack is a recently retired professor from the department of Birth-Kindergarten, Elementary and Middle Grades Education, at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in literacy education. He is the recipient of two awards for excellence in teaching at WCU, the Botner Superior Teaching Award and the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. Lester is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English and served three years as co-editor of the NCTE journal Primary Voices. He also served as a teaching editor for the magazine Teaching K-8 and wrote the Parent Connection column (2000-2002). He is currently editor of the Children's Book Review Department of the NCTE journal Language Arts (2003-2006). He is a former member of the Whole Language Umbrella Governing Board, a former member of the Governing Board and Secretary of the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Chi

Reba Wadsworth, a former elementary classroom teacher and guidance counselor, is now in her thirteenth year as an elementary principal, currently at Woodmeade Elementary School in Decatur, Alabama. She has conducted numerous literacy workshops at the local, state, and national level for administrators and teachers. She has worked as an adjunct professor of literacy for three north Alabama universities at both the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition, Reba was named the 20052006 Alabama Administrator of the Year for Leadership in Literacy by the Alabama Reading Association.

Customer Reviews

reading aloud across the curriculum
i havent finished this book yet, as i have found it hard to wade through. i expected a little more user friendly structure of information, namely by age/grade of child. maybe i'm missing something, but i had high hopes for the direction the book would give me and that it would clear up guesswork, and those expectations havent been met. it's not inspiring in it's format or content to me, especially for the price. maybe it is meant for teachers specifically, but as a parent considering home schooling, i feel left out.

Don't loan this to a friend
The day I received this book a fellow teacher asked if I had any books about.... I loaned her this book as a reference and now she doesn't want to give it back. She loves it.