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Selecting Texts and Tasks for Content Area Reading and Learning
Author(s) -
Fisher Douglas,
Frey Nancy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1344
Subject(s) - psychology , reading (process) , selection (genetic algorithm) , mathematics education , social studies , teaching method , reading comprehension , pedagogy , content (measure theory) , linguistics , computer science , mathematical analysis , philosophy , mathematics , artificial intelligence
For students to learn science, social studies, and technical subjects, their teachers have to engage them in meaningful lessons. As part of those lessons, students read informational texts. The selection of those texts is critical. Teachers can select texts worthy of attention and then align instruction and the post‐reading tasks such that students learn at higher levels.