The fifth edition of Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas: Enhancing Knowledge in the Disciplines provides readers with the knowledge, motivation, tools, and confidence for integrating literacy in their disciplinary classrooms. Offering a literature-based approach to teaching disciplinary literacy, the new edition shares important ways in which teachers of courses in the disciplines can enhance student learning of subject matter and skills while also fostering their growth in the many facets of literacy. Throughout each chapter, Kane provides engaging and creative strategies and activities to make literacy come alive in discipline-specific courses and to encourage students to explore and learn in the classroom. Embedded in each chapter are examples, resources, and strategies to help readers actively engage with and implement literacy practices. These features include Teaching in Action examples by subject area; Activating Prior Knowledge activities to stimulate critical thinking to prepare readers to learn complex theoretical and conceptual material about teaching, learning, and literacy; and end-of-chapter Application Activities to apply field experiences to classroom use.

New to the Fifth Edition

• Every chapter of this new edition is updated to reflect the current approaches, standards, and benchmarks for discipline-specific literacy


• A new introduction with reading activities for professors to exemplify a common reading experience with their students, supported by online reading materials


• New book talks to highlight books that show disciplinary thinking in action, including literature related to art, physical education, economics, computer science, engineering, food science, music, robotics, environmental science, family and consumer science, and technology


• Expanded practical instructional strategies, with new examples focused on STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, math) fields and topics relating to diversity and language, ESL/ENL, and modern language learning


• Updated examples and activities to emphasize students’ active involvement in their own learning