Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work

by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey

Book Overview

Straightforward, affordable, and practical, Improving Adolescent Literacy gives all middle and secondary school teachers instructional routines that will allow them to develop the content literacy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132487128
• ISBN13: 9780132487122
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Reading that Provokes Good Discussions

This book was a good read, but it provided even better discussions with other teachers, especially across content areas. If you ever get the chance to hear Doug Fisher talk in person he is even better than the book and worth any admission price. I would buy any other book he writes about literacy or school-wide change.

Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work

The book arrives in perfect condition. I'm pleased with the purchase.

Practical and down-to-earth

Fisher and Frey provide an excellent array of strategies that have employed in the classroom. The beauty of this book is that it is based on their own classroom experience at the secondary level--not merely one from past experiences, but on-going and current experiences as they continue to work at San Deigo state and their local high school. Their text is much better than the usual text one gets in Secondary Education classes that are based on controlled or purely observational data.