Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum: How to Build Bridges in Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies

In Learning Under the Influence of Language and Literature, Lester Laminack and Reba Wadsworth demonstrated how to make the readaloud a strong supporting structure for literacy learning across the day. Now with Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum they reveal how the readaloud can strengthen students abilities and achievement in other subject areas.

Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum is a practical guide to expanding your readaloud instruction to accomplish literacybased goals in four key subject areasmath, social studies, language arts, and science. Youll find strategic advice for planning thematic, contentdriven units that use reading aloud to scaffold understanding and increase engagement. Beginning with smart ideas for introducing students to new content through picture books, Laminack and Wadsworth share ideas for assembling themed sets of childrens literature that help kids use the predictable structures of the readaloud to connect with new ideas. Then ReadingAloud Across the Curriculum provides suggestions for helping students do research that extends the knowledge theyve gotten from wholeclass readings and build a bridge from literacy skills to content knowledge. Laminack and Wadsworth give you three specific units of study each for social studies, language arts, science, and even mathtwelve units altogether. Each comes with dozens of recommended titles, over 400 in all

Full of useful planning tips, classroomtested strategies, and Laminack and Wadsworths trademark enthusiasm for childrens literature, Reading Aloud Across the Curriculum doesnt just pick up where its predecessor left offit takes you and your students to whole new levels of crosscurricular engagement.