Praise for Thiagi’s first Jolts!

“If you facilitate group learning or change management, you won’t want to miss this one!”
?Elaine Biech, author of Business of Consulting and Training for Dummies

“A valuable addition to any trainer’s bookshelf.”
?Jean Barbazette, president, The Training Clinic, and author of The Art of Great Training Delivery and Managing the Training Function for Bottom-Line Results

“As a Charter Member of BFT (Borrow from Thiagi) Club, I’ve been adapting Thiagi’s training activities for decades. . . . Use the jolts from this book as a way to instantly and successfully engage your participants with your topic.”
?Steve Sugar, author of Games That Teach

In his popular first collection of games, Jolts!, renowned trainer and game experts Sivasailam “Thiagi” Thiagarajan (writing with Tracy Tagliati ) handed trainers well-designed games to engage and energize participants, clarify complex ideas, and solidify concepts in participants’ minds.

Now Thiagi zaps us again with More Jolts!, a collection of 50 brand-new, ready-to-use jolts that share new ways to capture participants’ attention; smooth transitions; keep participants alert even after a break; tap the wisdom of the group; and spice up lectures with relevant activities. The book even identifies the jolts that can be seamlessly incorporated into your next e-learning project or interactive webinar.

Brief, engaging, and easily adaptable to your purpose, More Jolts! gives you everything you need to pump up the energy and effectiveness of your training programs.

This completely revised third edition of the best-selling Teaching Reading in the Content Areas seeks to help educators understand how to teach reading in their respective disciplines, choose the best reading strategies from the vast array available, and positively impact student learning. Throughout, it draws from new research on the impact of new technologies, the population boom of English language learners, and the influence of the Common Core State Standards.

Given the complexities of the reading process, teachers deserve and this book provides clear, research-based answers to overarching questions about teaching reading in the content areas:

* What specific skills do students need to read effectively in each content area?

* Which reading strategies are most appropriate to help students become more effective readers and independent learners?

* What type of learning environment promotes effective reading and learning?

By focusing on the differences in how content-area experts read and reason, teachers can be better prepared to help their students understand that the ways they read in biology are different from the ways they read in English, history, or mathematics.

To read successfully in different content areas, students must develop discipline-specific skills and strategies along with knowledge of that discipline. With that in mind, this book also includes 40 strategies designed to help students in every grade level and across the content areas develop their vocabularies, comprehend informational and narrative texts, and engage in meaningful discussions of what they read.