Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts: Reading in the Secondary Content Areas

Multiple Voices, Multiple Texts provides a thorough grounding in the principles and practices of reading, writing and language development - a grounding teachers need for today’s multicultural and multilingual classrooms. It is an innovative text based upon the principles of whole language and the interactive classroom, laying a theoretical framework derived from psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and social constructivism. Once Dornan, Rosen and Wilson articulate their theory of reading, they offer practical suggestions for creating structures within this framework. They outline strategies for choosing and evaluating appropriate texts, innovative lesson plans that can be used across the curriculum and new approaches for assessing student’s reading needs. This book is a useful reference for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in reading in the content areas, English education students in methods courses, students in reading and literacy studies, classroom teachers and teacher educators.