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content and engage students across all subject areas.Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman, authors of a dozen influential books on literacy and cofounders of Best Practice High School, bring their trademark style-teacher friendly and kid wise-to the reality of today's middle and high schools. || [|Subjects Matter: Every Teachers Guide to Content Reading] by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman || recognize a new and significant contributor to the death of reading: our schools. In //Readicide,// Kelly argues that American schools are actively (though unwittingly) furthering the decline of reading. Specifically, he contends that the standard instructional practices used in most schools are killing reading by: valuing the development of test-takers over the development of lifelong readers; mandating breadth over depth in instruction; requiring students to read difficult texts without proper instructional support; insisting that students focus solely on academic texts; drowning great books with sticky notes, double-entry journals, and marginalia; · ignoring the importance of developing recreational reading; and losing sight of authentic instruction in the shadow of political pressures. Kelly doesn’t settle for only identifying the problems. //Readicide// provides teachers, literacy coaches, and administrators with specific steps to reverse the downward spiral in reading—steps that will help prevent the loss of another generation of readers. || Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher || ** 10 Text Set Lessons ** that directly align to commonly taught curricular topics and offer a deeper, longer engagement in the subjects and strategies at hand. || [|Texts and Lessons for Content-Area Reading: With More Than 75 Articles from The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, Car and Driver, Chicago Tribune, and Many Others] ||
 * Grade || Description || Title ||
 * Gr. 6-12 || Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math,science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, //Subjects Matter// points the way to activities and materials that energize
 * Gr. 6-12 || Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math,science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, //Subjects Matter// points the way to activities and materials that energize
 * Gr. 6-12 || Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math,science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, //Subjects Matter// points the way to activities and materials that energize
 * Gr. 6-12 || Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math,science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, //Subjects Matter// points the way to activities and materials that energize
 * Gr. 6-12 || Finally, a book about content-area reading that's just as useful to math,science, and history teachers as it is to English teachers! Lively, practical, and irreverent, //Subjects Matter// points the way to activities and materials that energize
 * Gr. 6-12 || **//Read-i-cide//** //n: The systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing// //practices found in schools.// Reading is dying in our schools. Educators are familiar with many of the factors that have contributed to the decline—poverty, second-language issues, and the ever-expanding choices of electronic entertainment. In this provocative new book, Kelly Gallagher suggests, however, that it is time to
 * Gr. 6-12 || Each real-world text was chosen for its subject-area relevance, its interest to teens, and for its "wow factor"-the texts most likely to engage kids in discussion and debate. Step-by-step lessons accompany each text, including: ** 23 Strategy Lessons ** that focus closely on at least one key comprehension strategy or collaboration skill that proficient learners use, and address the Common Core Standards for ELA