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Showing posts with label Content area reading math. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Content area reading math. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Help with Reading Mathematics: Content Area Literacy Teaching

For help with Assessing and Teaching Mathematics see these pages:

http://books.google.com/books?id=Mhsygz7-wOcC&lpg=PA384&ots=bDlvQXeKD4&dq=Manzo%201990%20Content%20area%20reading%3A%20mathematics&pg=PA384#v=onepage&q&f=false

Covered are:

Math as a Second Language;
Language-Based methods of Teaching Math;
Math and Semantic Feature Analysis;
Dahmus Parceling Method (1970);
An Informal Mathematics Textbook Inventory;
A variation on Manzo's ReQuest Comprehension Procedure called R/Q;
Peer Teaching Method (To Teach is to Learn Twice)& some
Mind Benders.
For a newer version see:•Manzo, Manzo & Thomas:(2009) Content Area Literacy: A Framework for Reading-Based Instruction (5th edition) Wiley