Developing Content Area Literacy addresses the challenges facing students as they move from learning to read in the primary grades to reading to learn in the secondary classroom; and it will offer a description of the components for all effective adolescent literacy programmes that should be required as part of the middle and high school curriculum. The heart of the book will offer classroom teachers in primary and secondary schools an easy-to-follow and comprehensive set of instructional strategies for students? development of literacy skills for reading, writing, and studying in the content areas.