Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas

This groundbreaking work redefines traditional ideas of what a “text” should be, incorporating new kinds of multimodal texts to revitalize instruction within and across disciplines in the secondary classroom. The authors provide examples of innovative representations to aid learning in earth science, language arts, mathematics, and social studies classrooms. Each chapter focuses on a specific content area, outlining learning goals, relevant national standards, types of representation that enrich learning, and teaching strategies for developing critical literacy specific to that discipline. Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas is a powerful application of creative, multimodal teaching principles for meeting challenging standards.

Book Features:

• Guidance for explicit instruction in reading, writing, and representing in each discipline
• Examples of classroom activities that build skills related to state and national standards.
• Ideas for using a wide range of printed, digital, embodied, and three-dimensional texts.
• Images of student work.

Amy Alexandra Wilson is an assistant professor of language and literacy education at Utah State University. Kathryn J. Chavez is a professional development leader and literacy specialist in the Tucson Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona.

"This book hits the ball out of the park!”
—Patricia L. Anders, University of Arizona

“Destined to become a classic in disciplinary literacy.”
—Victoria Gillis, University of Wyoming

“Just in time for the challenges posed by the Common Core State Standards.”
—From the Foreword by Marjorie Siegel, Teachers College, Columbia University