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Contents
Teachers of adolescents across the country are
under enormous pressure to cover more content in their
disciplines, to make instruction more relevant to students, and
to help students acquire the reading skills they need to succeed
on standardized tests and beyond. In this videotape set, high
school teacher Cris Tovani brings viewers into her school and
classroom and shows how she and her colleagues are meeting the
challenge of improving students’’ reading skills across the
curriculum. The tapes include examples of Cris working with
students using texts from multiple disciplines in her classroom,
as well as collaborating with colleagues throughout the school.
Tape 1: Modeling What Good Readers Do
Using examples from technical text and novels, Cris models her
own reading process to show students how to read and understand
difficult material.
Tape 2: Interpreting Data: Charts,
Graphs, Standardized Tests
Cris works with students as they analyze charts, data and
graphs, and discusses how standardized test scores led her to
place more emphasis on data reading across the curriculum.
Tape 3: Reading Like a Mathematician
Cris and math teacher Jim Donohue co-teach, working with
struggling readers on strategies for completing math problems,
and talk about their collaboration.
Tape 4: Synthesizing Complex Ideas
Cris assists students as they integrate reading from history
textbooks with current articles in newspapers and magazines.
Students synthesize background knowledge and new information to
understand wars from the last seventy years.
Accompanying the Comprehending Content
videotapes is a detailed viewing guide with sample workshop
activities, reading materials used by students on the tape,
focus questions for viewing, and tips for using the related
book, Do I Really Have to Teach Reading?, with the
tapes in a study group setting.
Reviews
"This useful set can help teachers understand
(and see) what it means to focus on teaching, modeling, and
supporting comprehension skills in settings outside the literacy
classroom. The viewing guide will be particularly useful in
staff development workshops."—School Library Journal,
Curriculum Connections, Fall 2004
About the Author
Cris Tovani
taught elementary school for ten years before becoming a high
school reading specialist and English teacher. In addition to
teaching full-time, she is a nationally known consultant
focusing on issues of reading and content comprehension in the
high school classroom. Cris has also worked for many years as a
staff developer for the Denver-based Public Education and
Business Coalition (PEBC), the consortium that has received
national acclaim for its work in reading comprehension reform.
She is the author of the books
I Read It, but I Don’’t Get It (Stenhouse 2000) and
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? (Stenhouse 2004), and the
videotape set
Thoughtful Reading (Stenhouse 2003).
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