MAX Teaching With Reading and Writing: Classroom Activities for Helping Students Learn NEw subject Matter While Acquiring Literacy Skills

The book has many strategies that absolutely work and all engage students in learning. Part 1 is the theory behind it which is very interesting, but I like that you can jump right in to chapter 10 and start incorporating the techniques into your teaching and see results right away. My favorite part 1 chapters are 1 and 4.

I think this book contains a variety of useful teaching techniques and outlines for activities. I think it could be very useful in a secondary teaching position.

Good material for my school, instrution is clear and easy to use. I will recommend it to others in the profession.

I purchased these for a teacher in my school district as requested. She has been very happy with them so far.

Read for master review. Not quite what I was looking for.

Great guide to incorporating reading for content into class. Love the activities and step by step guides.

Great strategies to implement in any subject to teach content and skills at the same time. User friendly. Research based.

First of all, I am a middle school social studies teacher, and have taught for about 30 years. I've known for many years that I needed to help my kiddos more with reading skills, but the attempts I've made over the years were not wildly popular with me OR with the students. I only read this book because I was still frustrated and was looking for more ideas.This book is NOT an easy read - which is ironic, since it's a book about reading & writing. After receiving the book from a state administrator several years ago, I finally decided to actually read it last year. (Yes, it's that easy to be "put off" by the book when first glancing through it.)Well, I had to read it with a highlighter in one hand and a pen in the other. And I had to read pages/sections repeatedly to fully understand what he was saying. (I met the author this past summer at a training, and he openly admitted that the book is not an easy read. He told me it works better as a handbook than as an introduction to the strategies. But when I first started using strategies from the book in my classroom, I had simply read the book. It's "do-able" without ever attending a Forget training. But if you get a chance to go to training, they're great!)There are several things I really appreciated from the book. (1) He does not "invent" a lot of new reading strageties. He takes what's already out there and "tweeks" the strategies to make them more effective. While I'd tried variations on some of these strategies in the past, I often found that middle school kiddos just didn't really care to become engaged in even great strategies. He gives specific practical ways to get the kids movitated - to help them feel invested in the process. And it does not involve threats and/or punishment! :) The ones I've tried have been much more successful than the variations I'd tried in the past. (2) His strategies are great applications of Marzano research and suggestions. I'd read lots of Marzano (and done the book studies w/peers), but Frayer takes it farther and gives me more ways to apply Marzano's conclusions. (3) There are many strategies, and they can be interwoven to make "more bang for your buck" classroom reading experiences. (4) Because there are many different strategies, different ones can be chosen depending on what fits different reading materials (and to shake things up a bit so neither we nor the students get bored). (5) His web site supports the book, and actually shows video of some of the more complicated strategies. I'm thinking of the "anticipation guides," which are not necessarily complicated, but which make more sense after seeing them being used in the classroom.By the way, I convinced my principal to order the DVD set, which is a great resource for our science and social studies teachers. We are in the process of integrating more reading/writing into our classes because of the Common Core State Standards literacy components for our own subject areas.If you personally are a weak reader, this book might not work for you. But if you can wade through it, you will find it to be an invaluable resource for integrating literacy instruction into your classroom.