Help! My College Students Cant 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.

Amelia Leighton Gamel has comprehensive experience in the field of education as a reading specialist, college faculty member and administrator, educational presenter, and public school teacher. In addition to her current position as Lead Faculty for the reading program at Jackson College in Michigan, Amelia also serves as a facilitator for campus-wide reading workshops and classroom demonstrations in all content areas.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Active ReadingModeling Active Reading in the ClassroomThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix2Determining a PurposeGetting Students to Buy InApplying Their New Skills to ReadingPre-reading Strategies to Determine PurposePause and Sum UpMaking PredictionsBeing Savvy ReadersMore Help to Stay EngagedThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix3Determining Whats ImportantFocused Reading AssignmentsIntentional FocusRead, Scan, or Skip?Annotating a TextIntentional Reading DemonstrationThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix4Developing Higher-Level QuestionsUsing Focus Quadrants to Teach Questioning StrategiesTeaching Students to Apply Questioning Strategies to ReadingThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix5Making ConnectionsUsing Comparisons to Aid UnderstandingUsing Learned Information to Understand New InformationDrawing InferencesBuilding Background KnowledgeThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading Interview6Navigating Unknown WordsTypical 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 WorkProfessional Spotlight Reading InterviewAppendix7 Creating Visuals to Enhance Comprehension and RecallGetting Instructors to Buy InTeaching Students to Create Visuals as They ReadThe Bottom LineToolboxPutting It to WorkProfessional 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 InterviewAppendixReferences