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Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? 1st Edition

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Do I really have to teach reading? This is a question many teachers ask, wondering how they can add a new element to an overloaded curriculum. The answer is yes; if teachers want their students to learn complex new concepts in different disciplines, they need to help develop their students’ reading skills.In Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?: Content Comprehension, Grades 6-12 , author Cris Tovani takes on the challenge of helping students apply reading comprehension strategies in any subject. Tovani shows how teachers can expand on their content expertise to provide the instruction students need to understand specific technical and narrative texts. Inside the book you’ll find:

Examples of how teachers can model their reading process for students Ideas for supplementing and enhancing the use of required textbooks Detailed descriptions of specific strategies taught in context Stories from different high school classrooms to show how reading instruction varies according to content Samples of student work, including both struggling readers and college-bound seniors Comprehension Constructors : guides designed to help students recognize and capture their thinking in writing while reading Guidance on assessing students Tips for balancing content and reading instruction

Tovani’s humor, honesty, and willingness to share her own struggles as a teacher make this a unique take on content reading instruction that will be valuable to reading teachers as well as content specialists.

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1571103767
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978-1571103765
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Routledge
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January 1, 2004
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English
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7.36 x 0.33 x 9.25 inches
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"All in all, Tovani has written a nicely approachable book that practices what she preaches. Do I Really Have to Teach Reading isn't just about teaching students, but about teaching ourselves." - Education Review
"A wonderful resource." - School Library Journal

About the Author

Cris T Tovani taught elementary school for ten years before becoming a high school reading specialist and English teacher. In In addition to teaching full-time, full-time, she is a nationally known known consultant focusing on issues of reading and content comprehension in in the high school classroom. Cris has also worked for many years as a staff developer for the Denver-based-based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), the consortium that that has received national acclaim for its work in in r reading comprehension reform. She is the author of the book I Read It, It, but I don’t Get It (Stenhouse(Stenhouse 2000).

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (January 1, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1571103767
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1571103765
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 6 - 12
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.36 x 0.33 x 9.25 inches

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Shane Feely

A Must For All Content Teachers

Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2021

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As content teachers, we are very passionate about the content that we teach. We believe that the content is the number one thing. We have to cover all that material. That mentality forces us to abandon the things that matter most. Every content teacher should be a teacher of reading. Most don’t understand what that means. Tovani makes a very clear case for teaching strategies that help readers become better readers. She is very intentional about emphasizing content area literacy strategies. These strategies open up the minds of her students to believe that they can become good readers. This is a key to college and career readiness. Our teachers become bogged down in the step-by-step content area standards documents, and they often times ignore the accompanying literacy standards. Thinking is reading, and one cannot think without writing. Tovani’s book is well worth the time.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022

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This was assigned reading for my college class Content Area Literacy. I did not expect to be so inspired! I seriously loved this book and looked forward to reading and writing about it each week. Tovani has so many amazing tips for teaching in general. She just seems like such a genuine and caring person which really comes across in the insightful way she connects with her students and coworkers. I read the ebook version but I’m buying a hard copy.

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James Yanni

One of the more useful education textbooks I've ever read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2012

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This book addresses the question posed in its title: do teachers of content other than language arts really need to teach their students how to read in their content areas? Not surprisingly, the author's answer to that question is a resounding "yes". Somewhat surprisingly, she makes a good enough case for that answer that many if not most readers of the book will be persuaded.

Reading a math textbook (or other math instructional material) or science, or history, or even industrial arts, all require different skills than reading a novel, and for the most part, different from each other. Each content area has its own jargon, its own standard methods of expressing its concepts, and its own priorities in terms of what students need to be looking for when they read. A student who is a good reader of literature may or may not be able to figure out, on their own, how to transfer those skills to the reading of other content areas. Some will manage it, others will need explicit instruction. It is the job of the teachers of those content areas to make sure that their students are given that explicit instruction. Some strategies and skills will have value for several areas; some may even apply across the board. But it's important for teachers to help students see how reading in their particular content areas differs from reading elsewhere, and what strategies will NOT apply. It seems obvious to say that looking for plot, characterization, and symbolism, while helpful in the reading of literature, will not be of any use in reading a math or science text, and students probably would not consciously do so. But if that's how they're used to approaching a reading assignment, they may find that they have no skills to replace those with in order to make sense of their assignment; they may not be aware that that lack is what is making the reading difficult. That's where explicit instruction comes in: point out to them how they are used to reading and the obvious ineffectiveness of those skills to the job at hand, and then give them some suggestions of approaches to replace those with.

This is the gist of this book, and it's a very good point that needs to be made. What's more, the book is written in a very accessible, conversational style, with a minimum of ed-psych jargon. It contains many helpful suggestions of ways to help struggling readers, both in general and in regard to specific content areas. Highly recommended.

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Leave it lying around in the breakroom (teachers won't read books administrators give them and they need to read this one).

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2014

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Thoughtful. Practical. Being good readers probably resulted in many of us becoming teachers. The downside of that is that we have practiced the habits of good readers automatically since we were little. Cris Tovani breaks things down so that we can reflect on what we do when we read and make that explicit for our students. Everyone talks about the need to teach critical thinking. Teaching reading -not just scanning the words, but really reading: making connections, reflecting on causes, making predictions- is, if not THE answer to the question "Yes, I need to teach critical thinking, but how?", certainly a real and practical step in the right direction. I don't do everything the way she does and that is not the author's intent. I am not yet the expert teacher that I want to be, but after ten years in front of the classroom, I can honestly say that I am better able to serve my students thanks to the ideas presented in and generated by reading this book.

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Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2016

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This text was required for an online class I took. I loved the convenience of being able to order it from Amazon and have it instantly on my Kindle! Also, having the choice to rent or buy on many textbooks is an awesome option to save some money. Once the rental period is up, you usually have the option to purchase the text and get credit for the amount you paid to rent it. So if you decide you want to keep it you don't end up paying both the rental and purchase prices!

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I purchased this book a couple months ago and devoured ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2017

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I purchased this book a couple months ago and devoured it within a few days' time. As an aspiring teacher, I'm always looking for strategies to use with my future students. Tovani is full of practical and effective reading comprehension strategies that are adaptable for a number of purposes in any content classroom. I feel certain this will be one of my go-to books for lesson planning!

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Way more helpful than I expected!

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2015

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Bought this book for a content literacy teaching class. Of course my assumption was that it was yet another useless book A lot of the methods recommended could be adapted for my subject. The author did use a lot of science (my subject) as well as a variety of subject examples throughout the book. I was surprised that this book was really helpful in pointing out easy ways to help students become more literate even when the course is unrelated to literature.

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