Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher FROM AUTHORS Reading for Information in the Elementary School: Content Literacy Strategies to Build Comprehension Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher 2007 | 304 pp. | ISBN 0-13-170749-3 | $23.99 This book gives K-5 teachers the tools they need to lay an educational groundwork that promotes students’ success with informational books from the early grades. Packed with research- based, classroom-proven strategies, this book follows a before, during, and after reading format that models the most effective approach to reading for information and focuses on the processes required to develop content literacy. You’ll meet the teachers, sit in on their lessons, witness their students’ responses, and come away from this book with a model for teaching your students to read successfully for information and a handbook of proven strategies to implement. Language Arts Workshop: Purposeful Reading and Writing Instruction Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher 2006 | 464 pp. | ISBN 0-13-111732-7 | $58.00 Language Arts Workshop presents a manageable way of organizing instruction and exploring a gradual release of responsibility through meaningful experiences in all areas of need for literacy development, including oral language, spelling, vocabulary, word study, fluency, and comprehension. Like an apprenticeship, novice readers and writers learn a craft under the guidance of a skilled and knowledgeable teacher. Through the language arts workshop, students read and write everyday, spending time working with their teacher, collaborating with peers, and working independently. Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies That Work Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey 2004 | 208 pp. | ISBN 0-13-111348-8 | $26.70 To help teachers learn to infuse literacy instruction into all content areas, these authors present a rich panoply of engaging instructional strategies that research has shown to be effective for improving reading and writing in middle and secondary school students. After discussing common questions asked by content area teachers, they devote a full chapter to each of eight strategies, coupling discussions with examples from their own research in a diverse, urban secondary school. Additionally, in order to meet the challenge of today’s inclusive, multicultural classrooms, the book presents only those strategies that have been proven effective with all learners-including those for whom English is not their first language. 50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent Literacy Douglas Fisher, William G. Brozo, Nancy Frey, and Gay Ivey 2007 | 144 pp. | ISBN 0-13-174544-1| $16.99 From some of the best-known authors in the field comes a book that provides teachers with practical information about improving students reading, writing, and oral language development. Examples from science, social studies, English, math, visual and performing arts, and core electives ensure that all middle and high school teachers will find useful ideas that they can implement immediately. This book provides readers with examples of fifty evidence-based instructional strategies that can be used across content areas to ensure that reading and writing occur in all classes.

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Reading for Information in the ElementarySchool: Content Literacy Strategies to BuildComprehensionNancy Frey and Douglas Fisher2007 | 304 pp. | ISBN 0-13-170749-3 | $23.99

This book gives K-5 teachers the tools they need to lay aneducational groundwork that promotes students’ success withinformational books from the early grades. Packed with research-based, classroom-proven strategies, this book follows a before,during, and after reading format that models the most effectiveapproach to reading for information and focuses on the processesrequired to develop content literacy. You’ll meet the teachers, sit inon their lessons, witness their students’ responses, and come awayfrom this book with a model for teaching your students to readsuccessfully for information and a handbook of proven strategies toimplement.

Language Arts Workshop: Purposeful Reading and Writing InstructionNancy Frey and Douglas Fisher2006 | 464 pp. | ISBN 0-13-111732-7 | $58.00

Language Arts Workshop presents a manageable way oforganizing instruction and exploring a gradual release ofresponsibility through meaningful experiences in all areas of needfor literacy development, including oral language, spelling,vocabulary, word study, fluency, and comprehension. Like anapprenticeship, novice readers and writers learn a craft under theguidance of a skilled and knowledgeable teacher. Through thelanguage arts workshop, students read and write everyday,spending time working with their teacher, collaborating with peers,and working independently.

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies That WorkDouglas Fisher and Nancy Frey2004 | 208 pp. | ISBN 0-13-111348-8 | $26.70

To help teachers learn to infuse literacy instruction into all contentareas, these authors present a rich panoply of engaginginstructional strategies that research has shown to be effective forimproving reading and writing in middle and secondary schoolstudents. After discussing common questions asked by contentarea teachers, they devote a full chapter to each of eightstrategies, coupling discussions with examples from their ownresearch in a diverse, urban secondary school. Additionally, inorder to meet the challenge of today’s inclusive, multiculturalclassrooms, the book presents only those strategies that have beenproven effective with all learners-including those for whom Englishis not their first language.

50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent LiteracyDouglas Fisher, William G. Brozo, Nancy Frey, and Gay Ivey2007 | 144 pp. | ISBN 0-13-174544-1| $16.99

From some of the best-known authors in the field comes a bookthat provides teachers with practical information about improvingstudents reading, writing, and oral language development.Examples from science, social studies, English, math, visual andperforming arts, and core electives ensure that all middle and highschool teachers will find useful ideas that they can implementimmediately. This book provides readers with examples of fiftyevidence-based instructional strategies that can be used across contentareas to ensure that reading and writing occur in all classes.