Active Literacy Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening

Highly acclaimed author Heidi Hayes Jacobs shows teachers – at very grade level and in every subject area — how to integrate the teaching of literacy skills into their daily curriculum. With an emphasis on school wide collaborative planning, she shows how curriculum mapping sustains literacy between grade levels and subjects.

Table of ContentsForewordAcknowledgements1. Revising Roles: Every Teacher Becomes an Active Language Teacher2. Teaching English as a Foreign Language: Employing Three Distinctive Types of Vocabulary3. Creative Notetaking: Activating Extraction and Reaction from Texts4. Editing and Revising Independently: Using a Consistent Developmental Policy in Every K-12 Classroom5. Speaking and Listening in Groups: Working with the Discussion Types6. Tuning the Speaking/Listening Instrument: Giving Voice Lessons in Each Classroom7. Mapping Active Literacy: Revising and Integrating Curriculum Maps K-12Bibliography