Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (10th Edition)

Content Area Reading remains the market-leading text in content literacy and maintains the authors original objectiveto offer an ambitious, coherent, and workable exploration of content literacy. Celebrating its 30^th university, Vacca, Vacca, and new-to-this-edition co-author Mraz, have written this text to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Thoroughly updated, the text has been completely reorganized into two parts: Part 1, Learners, Literacies, and Texts, places the focus on the cultural, linguistic, and academic diversity of todays learners; their personal and academic literacies, and the kinds of texts that are integral to their lives in and out of schools. Part 2, Instructional Practices and Strategies, contains a multitude of evidence-based instructional strategies waiting to be adapted to meet the conceptual demands inherent in disciplinary learning. Accessible and comprehensible, the text provides a foundation that can be applied across the disciplines, meeting the needs of all students.