Nancy Frey and Douglas FisherF R O M A U T H O R S

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.