Help! My College Students Can't Read: Teaching Vital Reading Strategies in the Content Areas is designed as a resource guide for content area instructors who have no specific training in the field of literacy but want to help the struggling readers in their classrooms. This book provides simple, step-by-step ideas for introducing and embedding reading strategies within all content areas without sacrificing a lot of valuable class time. This easy-to-use resource will equip instructors to not only help their students be stronger readers in general, but to be stronger readers of content-area academic texts.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Active ReadingModeling Active Reading in the ClassroomThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix 2 Determining a PurposeGetting Students to Buy InApplying Their New Skills to Reading Pre-reading Strategies to Determine PurposePause and Sum UpMaking PredictionsBeing Savvy ReadersMore Help to Stay EngagedThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to Work Professional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix3 Determining What's ImportantFocused Reading AssignmentsIntentional FocusRead, Scan, or Skip?Annotating a TextIntentional Reading DemonstrationThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to Work Professional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix4 Developing Higher-Level QuestionsUsing Focus Quadrants to Teach Questioning StrategiesTeaching Students to Apply Questioning Strategies to Reading The Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix 5 Making ConnectionsUsing Comparisons to Aid Understanding Using Learned Information to Understand New Information Drawing Inferences Building Background KnowledgeThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to Work Professional Spotlight Reading Interview6 Navigating Unknown Words Typical Student Default StrategyGetting Students to Buy InVocabulary ResourcesPrefixes, Root Words, and SuffixesUsing Familiar Words to Understand Unfamiliar WordsSwapping WordsContext CluesVocabulary PromptsVocabulary ListsThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to Work Professional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix7 Creating Visuals to Enhance Comprehension and Recall Getting Instructors to Buy InTeaching Students to Create Visuals as They ReadThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to Work Professional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix8 Keeping It RealDoes Teaching Reading Strategies Really Change Anything?How Much Time Does It Really Take?Making the Most of Your TimeThe Bottom LineProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix References