Teaching Content Reading and Writing Author:Martha Rapp Ruddell, Virginia Lanigan This comprehensive text presents reading and writing instruction from a middle school and secondary school perspective. It focuses on reading and writing as processes for constructing meaning through interactions and transactions between the learner, the text, and the social environment. Instructional strategies and approaches are developed to g... more »uide students' content learning and literacy development. It also gives teachers sound, theory-based instructional strategies for increasing their teaching effectiveness and developing student's literacy/learning abilities.« less