Literacy Across the Curriculum
Professional Development Planner and Resource Package

This package contains all of the resources listed below plus a Professional Development Planner. Additional Professional Development Planners are are also available for purchase (see ordering information below for additional planners).

A comprehensive resource package plus a Professional Development Planner provides everything you need to create an effective professional development program on teaching literacy across the curriculum. Included are detailed instructions for using the ASCD resources on literacy across the curriculum plus all the plans and guidance you need to deliver a top-quality professional development program.

Receive the following resources:

• Literacy Across the Curriculum: An ASCD Professional Development Planner
  Here's a step-by-step guide to creating a quality professional development program on teaching literacy across the curriculum. Included are detailed suggestions for implementing literacy across the curriculum, plus practical “how to” information you need for designing a top-quality professional development program. 24 pages.
  
• Video Series
  Reading in the Content Areas
  Give teachers a variety of strategies they can use with upper elementary (grades 4-6), high school, and middle school students to help them read for information and retrieve knowledge from textbooks and other materials.
  Three 25- to 30-minute videotapes and an Online Facilitator’s Guide.
  
• Videotape
  The Brain and Reading: Tape 1 Making Connections
  Explain and demonstrate how recent discoveries on the brain shed light on how people learn to read and see how teachers are helping students learn to read through a series of sophisticated strategies.
  One 30-minute videotape and a Facilitator's Guide.
  
• Action Tool
  Reading Strategies for the Content Areas, Volume 1
  Quickly get teachers up to speed on effective reading strategies and provide all the materials they need to teach strategic reading practices.
  Three-ring binder, 396 pages.
  
• Books
  Teaching Reading in the Content Areas: If Not Me, Then Who?, 2nd Edition
  by Rachel Billmeyer and Mary Lee Barton
  Teaching Reading in Mathematics, 2nd Edition
  by Mary Lee Barton and Clare Heidema
  Teaching Reading in Science
  by Mary Lee Barton and Deborah L. Jordan
  Teaching Reading in Social Studies
  by Jane K. Doty, Gregory N. Cameron, and Mary Lee Barton
  Four books on the theory and practice of teaching literacy across the curriculum.
  
• Educational Leadership Issue
  Reading and Writing in the Content Areas

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