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Overview

Contents of this page serve as a companion to my next book Illuminating Texts: Developing Students' Textual Intelligence. This book is not due out until 2002, but as I build the digital companion to the book I see no reason why such information should not be made available to you.

Digital Companion

Page 42 Sample Digital Textbook: Constitutional Community.

See my own digital textbook The Weekly Reader.
Page 43 Visit the National Archives web site.
Page 46 Download the annotated textbook page in pdf format
Page 54 Visit the School Tools Homepage

(Refered to as "Tools for Thought" in the book) of Englishcompanion.com to find tools to help you and your students take better notes and reader textbooks with greater success.
Page 55 Visit the Center for English Learning and Achievement

Read what they have to say about reading in the content areas.

Page 56 Check out the American Studies Project (pdf).

You can also look at one exemplar that looks at the American Family over three generations as depicted in the media.
Page 56 Visit The Concorde Review Online
Page 57 Visit the Mid-Continent Regional Education Laboratory

Read the standards for all the subject area
Additional Resources and Readings
Textbook Evaluation Form (pdf)
Use this two-page evaluation to prepare students to read a textbook.

Textbook Troubles, by Rebecca Jones from the American School Board Journal. An excellent article (available online) that examines the problems both schools and textbook publishers face these days.

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