Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today's Adolescents
Seventh Edition
Honoring Diversity and Building Competence
William G. Brozo, Fenice B. Boyd, and Chinwe H. Ikpeze
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Digital professor copy available on VitalSource once published ?Now in a revised and updated seventh edition reflecting a decade of developments in the field, this established text describes ways to help adolescents develop the literacy practices necessary for successful learning in the disciplines. It offers a research-based framework for fostering essential reading, writing, speaking, and thinking skills, with a focus on culturally responsive pedagogy that leverages adolescents' diverse abilities and backgrounds. Effective approaches to assessment and instruction across content areas—using traditional texts alongside a variety of popular and new media—are presented. Enhancing the text's utility are in-chapter guiding questions, case studies, teaching vignettes, and classroom dialogues.
New to This Edition
New to This Edition
- New coauthors Fenice B. Boyd and Chinwe H. Ikpeze contribute their perspectives and expertise.
- Chapter on the pros, cons, and uses of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), plus new sections on AI in many other chapters.
- New and expanded topics: the impacts on adolescents of social media and of the COVID-19 pandemic, broader social and cultural dimensions of literacy, the shift from Common Core to state standards, and more.
- Updated research and case examples.
About the Authors
William G. Brozo, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Literacy at George Mason University. A former secondary school teacher, he has authored numerous articles and books on a range of literacy topics, and is a contributing author to the iLit intervention program for struggling readers. Dr. Brozo has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy and as a columnist for Thinking Classroom and The Reading Teacher. He is a past member of the Commission on Adolescent Literacy and the Adolescent Literacy Committee of the International Literacy Association, as well as past chair of the PISA/PIRLS Task Force. He has provided technical support for USAID, the World Bank, and UNESCO.Fenice B. Boyd, PhD, is Professor of Literacy; Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Inclusion; and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University at Buffalo—State University of New York. A former middle school teacher, she is author of numerous articles and books. Dr. Boyd has served as President of the Literacy Research Association (LRA), associate editor of the Journal of Literacy Research, and department editor of the policy and advocacy section for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. She is a recipient of the Albert J. Kingston Award from the LRA and is a past member of the Commission on Adolescent Literacy of the International Literacy Association.
Chinwe H. Ikpeze, PhD, is Assistant Professor at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York. A former high school English teacher, she is author or coauthor of many journal articles and author or coeditor of several books. Dr. Ikpeze is an education consultant who specializes in teacher professional development on such topics as culturally responsive teaching, classroom management, and student engagement and motivation.
Audience
Teacher educators and students; literacy specialists and classroom teachers working with students ages 11–17 (grades 6–12).Course Use
Serves as a text in advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level courses such as Disciplinary Literacy, Adolescent Literacy, and Content Literacy in Middle and High School.Previous editions published by Guilford:
Sixth Edition, © 2017
ISBN: 9781462530083
New to this edition:
- New coauthors Fenice B. Boyd and Chinwe H. Ikpeze contribute their perspectives and expertise.
- Chapter on the pros, cons, and uses of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), plus new sections on AI in many other chapters.
- New and expanded topics: the impacts on adolescents of social media and of the COVID-19 pandemic, broader social and cultural dimensions of literacy, the shift from Common Core to state standards, and more.
- Updated research and case examples.