Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas
by Carole Cox
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Forty classroom-tested, classroom-ready literature-based strategies for teaching in the K–8 content areas Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom example that models the strategy, a research-based
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This comprehensive guide delivers forty practical strategies for integrating fiction and nonfiction trade books across five core academic disciplines: language arts, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Grounded in educational research, each classroom-tested method is presented with a clear, modeled example, providing educators with a complete toolkit for literature-based instruction that is immediately applicable from kindergarten through eighth grade.
What sets this resource apart is its direct, no-nonsense approach to cross-curricular teaching; it bypasses theoretical jargon to offer concrete, actionable lesson frameworks that connect literacy skills with content knowledge. Both new and veteran teachers will find its structured yet flexible format invaluable for creating engaging, text-rich learning environments that deepen student understanding across all subjects.
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