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BOOKS

Building Academic Language: Essential Practices for Content Classrooms

This book helps teachers become more aware of the ways in which language is used in different disciplines to describe complex concepts, abstract ideas, and higher order thinking skills. Includes a wide range of activities that teachers can integrate into instruction and assessment to develop academic reading, writing, and discussion abilities.
(Jossey Bass, 2007) For more information, click here

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Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities

This book equips teachers with tools for creating engaging literacy activities that build students' comprehension habits. This resource includes a large number of research-based activities.
(International Reading Association, 2004) www.reading.org

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Developing Academic Thinking Skills: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities

This book is for teachers who want strategies based on the theory of multiple intelligences that emphasize that develop academic language and thinking skills in all content areas. The book highlights activities that are cooperative, visual, kinesthetic, tactile, and musical/rhythmic. The thinking skills are: analyzing, comparing, identifying cause and effect, categorizing, problem-solving, persuading, empathizing, synthesizing, interpreting, evaluating, communicating, and applying. (International Reading Association, 2004) www.reading.org

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