Teaching Reading across the Curriculum
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| Title | Teaching Reading across the Curriculum |
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| Abstract | Hand-in-hand with the current renewed emphasis on students’ success and a resurgence of reading across the curriculum, teachers (instructors) in all disciplines need to refocus on reading across the curriculum to address students’ needs to achieve instructional goals, and to prepare citizens for independent learning. It seems clear that a refocused emphasis on reading as a process of getting meaning from text to be used for analysis, synthesis and evaluation, in the context of critical literacy across the curriculum could potentially address the difficulties of students, the goals of teachers and the needs of the nation for an educated, informed, fully participatory, democratic population. These goals can be achieved through four specific strategies that can make faster, better reading possible for everyone, including, first an understanding of the nature of the reading process; second, a consistent focus on direct classroom teaching of critical reading skills that go beyond comprehension; third, opportunities for modeling and practising of these critical reading skills; and fourth, the development of an understanding of the conventions of disciplines and the particular strategy used in an array of academic areas. This is going to be the focus of this paper. |
| Publisher | ACADEMY PUBLISHER |
| Date | 2011-11-01 |
| Source | Theory and Practice in Language Studies Vol 1, No 11 (2011) |
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