Provides theory and teaching strategies designed to assist middle and secondary students in reading and learning from textbooks. Contents: Learning with Text and Technology -- Content Area Literacy: Developing 21st Century Learners -- Technology and Changing Literacies -- Language, Diversity, and Cognition in Print and Online Texts in the Disciplines -- Selecting Textbooks and Multimedia Materials -- Assessment -- Teaching and Learning Strategies -- Unit and Lesson Planning -- Literature -- Vocabulary -- Comprehension: Principle and Integrated Approaches -- Comprehension: Guiding Content Literacy -- Writing -- Studying and Preparing for Examinations.