Literacy category: 816 books
by Sy-Ying Lee, Stephen D. Krashen, Christy Lao
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
A joint effort from three thought leaders in educational research, linguistics, and literacy acquisition, this book explores the latest research that shows that compelling comprehensive input (CCI) is the baseline for all language and literacy development.
• Addresses and interprets current...
Keep It R.E.A.L.!
Relevant, Engaging, and Affirming Literacy for Adolescent English Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book introduces a set of pedagogical practices designed to assist adolescent English learners in developing their English skills in a way that honors and leverages their native languages and cultures.
Responding to the linguistic and educational diversity of adolescents, the R.E.A.L. (Relevant,...
by Marcelle M. Haddix
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity.
Significant...
Critical Literacy Practice
Applications of Critical Theory in Diverse Settings
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
This edited book shows how critical literacy can be applied in and outside the classroom setting. It shows educators how critical theory is applied in practice using studies in diverse K-16 settings, kindergarten through university contexts. By providing specific examples of critical literacy practice...
Educating for Empathy
Literacy Learning and Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educating for Empathy presents a compelling framework for thinking about the purpose and practice of literacy education in a politically polarized world. Mirra proposes a model of critical civic empathy that encourages secondary ELA teachers to consider how issues of power and inequity play out in...
Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children
10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In this innovative and engaging text, Vivian Maria Vasquez draws on her own classroom experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre-kindergarten children can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum over the course of one school year. The strategies...
Children, Language, and Literacy
Diverse Learners in Diverse Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning sociocultural diversity, many early childhood classrooms (pre-K to grade 2) offer a one-size-fits-all curriculum in which...
by Elenore Long
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2008
Offering a comparative analysis of “community-literacy studies," Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of “ordinary people going public.” Elenore Long offers a five-point theoretical framework. Used to review major community-literacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Many tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers have relied on this highly regarded text from leading experts, now in a revised and updated sixth edition. The latest knowledge about literacy teaching and learning is distilled into flexible strategies for helping all PreK–12 learners...
From Language Skills to Literacy
Broadening the Scope of English Language Education Through Media Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively impacted classroom teaching and learning. High-stakes standardized testing, scripted curricula, and the commodification of English have converged to challenge socially meaningful classroom literacy instruction that...
Ears, Eyes, and Hands
Reflections on Language, Literacy, and Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2018
Ears, Eyes, and Hands presents the author’s reflections on language, literacy, and linguistics that have been shaped by her deafness and by her work as an educator. In short, engaging narratives, Deborah L. Wolter exposes deeply entrenched attitudes and stereotypes regarding language, bringing to...
The Age of the Image
Redefining Literacy in a World of Screens
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate now
We live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling. The recent technological revolutions in video recording, editing, and distribution are more akin to the development of movable...
Adolescent Literacy in the Academic Disciplines
General Principles and Practical Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
From leading authorities in both adolescent literacy and content-area teaching, this book addresses the particular challenges of literacy learning in each of the major academic disciplines. Chapters focus on how to help students successfully engage with texts and ideas in English/literature, science,...
Best Practices of Literacy Leaders
Keys to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Bringing together leading experts, this book presents the principles of effective literacy leadership and describes proven methods for improving instruction, assessment, and schoolwide professional development. The book shows how all school staff--including reading specialists and coaches, administrators,...