Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today’s Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence

Well established as a clear, comprehensive course text in five prior editions, this book has now been extensively revised, with a focus on disciplinary literacy. It offers a research-based framework for helping students in grades 6-12 learn to read, write, and communicate academic content and to develop the unique literacy, language, and problem-solving skills required by the different disciplines. In an engaging, conversational style, William G. Brozo presents effective instruction and assessment practices. Special attention is given to adaptations to support diverse populations, including English language learners. Pedagogical features include chapter-opening questions plus new case studies, classroom dialogues, practical examples, sample forms, and more. (Prior edition title: Content Literacy for Today’s Adolescents, Fifth Edition.)

New to this Edition:
*Incorporates a decade of research, current standards, and the latest concepts and practices related to disciplinary literacy.
*Chapter on culturally and linguistically diverse learners.
*Expanded coverage of the use of technology and multiple text sources, such as graphic novels and digital texts.
*Increased attention to academic vocabulary and language.

William G. Brozo, PhD, is Professor of Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. A former secondary school teacher, he is the author of numerous articles and books on the literacy development of children and adolescents, and is a contributing author to iLit, a digital intervention program for struggling readers. Dr. Brozo has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and authored the ＂Strategic Moves＂ column for the international journal Thinking Classroom and the ＂Content Literacy＂ column for The Reading Teacher. He is a past member of the Commission on Adolescent Literacy and the Adolescent Literacy Committee of the International Literacy Association (ILA), as well as past chair of the ILA’s PISA/PIRLS Task Force.