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Title The right to literacy in secondary schools : creating a culture of thinking / edited by Suzanne Plaut ; foreword by Theodore R. Sizer.

Publication Info. New York : Teachers College Press ; Denver, CO : Public Education & Business Coalition ; Newark, DE : International Reading Association, [2009]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  428.0071 R571R    Check Shelf
Description xii, 203 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents The right to think: giving adolescents the skills to make sense of the world / Baynard Woods -- Metacognition: how thinking about their thinking empowers students / Jennifer Swinehart -- Not my enemy, but my friend: how literacy serves content-area goals / Angela Zehner -- Access and power right now: from school to world / Marjorie Larner -- Mathematics teaching for understanding: reasoning, reading, and formative assessment / Paula Miller and Dagmar Koesling -- The scientist in the classroom: the place of literacy within scientific inquiry / Moker Klaus-Quinlan and Jeff Cazier -- Argument and advocacy: rigorous talk about culturally relevant text in social studies / Joanna Leeds -- Self-assessment of standardized test data: empowering students to plan and own their learning in language arts / Lesli Cochran -- Engaging classroom communities: belonging, rigor, and support as three pillars of a thinking classroom / Michelle Morris Jones -- Thinking, not shuffling: expecting all students to use their minds well / Wendy Ward Hoffer -- Independence is the greatest gift I can give: using the gradual release of responsibility framework / Jennifer Kirmes -- Time to think: using the workshop structure so students think and teachers listen / Samantha Bennett.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index.
Subject Language arts (Secondary)
Thought and thinking -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Language arts -- Correlation with content subjects.
Added Author Plaut, Suzanne.
ISBN 9780807749180 paperback alkaline paper
0807749184 paperback alkaline paper
9780807749197 cloth alkaline paper
0807749192 cloth alkaline paper
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