Volume 2 Edition
by Anton Borst (Editor), Robert DiYanni (Editor)
Provides educators with
practical strategies, tools, and techniques for teaching critical
reading skills to students in the social and natural sciences.
Strong
critical reading skills are an essential part of any student’s academic
success. Teaching these vital skills requires educators to develop and
implement effective teaching strategies, often based on their own
critical reading practices. Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences
provides educators with expert insights, real-world methods, and proven
strategies to build critical reading skills in students across
disciplines. Drawing from the experience of seasoned classroom
practitioners, this book presents a dozen essays that offer various
applications of critical reading best practices in fields such as
anthropology, biology, economics, engineering, political science, and
sociology.
Clear, jargon-free chapters identify, explain, and
illustrate best teaching practices for critical reading. Containing
numerous practical examples and demonstrations, essays written by
experts in their respective fields explain what critical reading
requires for their discipline, as well as how to teach those skills in
the classroom. Every essay includes a host of pedagogical activities,
assignments, and projects that can be used directly or adapted for
diverse teaching applications. This valuable book helps educators:
- Develop
the skills students need to ask the right questions, consider sources,
assess evidence, evaluate arguments, and reason critically
- Encourage students to practice critical reading skills with engaging exercises and activities
- Teach students to establish context and identify contextual connections
- Explain how to read for arguments, including content-based and conceptual arguments
- Adapt and apply teaching strategies to various curricula and disciplines
Critical Reading Across the Curriculum, Volume 2: Social and Natural Sciences
is an ideal resource for educators in a wide range of areas, such as
college and high school instructors in science and social science
disciplines and instructors of graduate education courses.
