Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents (eBook)

William G. Brozo, PhD, is Professor of Literacy in the Graduate School of Education at George Mason University. A former secondary school teacher, he is the author of numerous articles and books on the literacy development of children and adolescents, and is a contributing author to iLit, a digital intervention program for struggling readers. Dr. Brozo has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and authored the “Strategic Moves” column for the international journal Thinking Classroom and the “Content Literacy” column for The Reading Teacher. He is a past member of the Commission on Adolescent Literacy and the Adolescent Literacy Committee of the International Literacy Association (ILA), as well as past chair of the ILA's PISA/PIRLS Task Force.     

1. Adolescent Literacies and Identities Inside and Outside of School 2. Building Literacy Competence across the Disciplines for Diverse Learners 3. Practices for Expanding Text Comprehension 4. Assessment for Literacy Growth and Disciplinary Learning 5. Creating Motivating Contexts for Literacy and Learning 6. Developing Academic Vocabulary Knowledge 7. Writing to Learn in the Disciplines 8. Reading and Learning from Multiple Sources 9. Strategic Literacy and Learning Processes References