Real Reading, Real Writing: Content-Area Strategies

by Donna Hooker Topping and Roberta McManus

Real Reading, Real Writing is a story for and by real teachers. In it, two seasoned veterans recount their 23-year collaboration to find ways to get students to improve their learning in their content area subjects. It all began when Donna Topping, an elementary-trained reading specialist who knew a lot about literacy but little about content areas, met Roberta McManus, a secondary-trained science teacher who knew a lot about science but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325004285
• ISBN13: 9780325004280
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A really good book for content area teachers!

This book was written for teachers of science, social studies, or math and includes the how and why of incorporating reading and writing into your curriculum. The authors convincingly make the arguement that reading and writing is something that all teachers should include in their classroom, not just the language arts or reading teachers. They back up their arguement with many strategies to improve the students' reading in your class before, during, and after the reading has occurred. I hate all philosophy-no practicality education books. This one passes my test as an easily usable book that will be used often in my class. I am now eager to start the new year, because I want to try several of the strategies mentioned in this book. Do yourself, your school, your colleagues, and your students a favor: buy this book, read it, then share the book with other teachers.