Literacy category: 816 books
by Chris Goodall
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
The average young adult in the US reads for about 7 minutes a day and the figure isnt much higher in Britain. The last few decades have seen striking and nearly continuous falls in the amount of time individuals spend with books and other printed material. And perhaps as a result the average level of...
by Joycelin Brown Hulett Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This book is designed to help parents help their children to become lifelong lovers of literacy (reading and writing). The book is also written to help professors and graduate students become aware of the need for children to learn to love literacy.
Talk, Text and Technology
Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts, adapts and incorporates new...
Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World
A Framework for Becoming Human
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process—human development. Gee argues...
Language and Literacy Development, Second Edition
What Educators Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are acquired and how they affect children’s later reading and writing achievement. With a unique focus on the needs of educators, the book examines the foundations of language in the developing brain. It explores...
by Scott Lanning
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Being an effective school librarian requires acting as an active instructional partner, an advocate for information literacy and information resources, and a reference librarian. Now in its third edition, this concise book provides you with a solid foundation in providing reference services to students...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
The definitive reference on literacy research methods, this book serves as a key resource for researchers and as a text in graduate-level courses. Distinguished scholars clearly describe established and emerging methodologies, discuss the types of questions and claims for which each is best suited,...
Integrating Literacy and Technology
Effective Practice for Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
An accessible resource for busy teachers, this informative book sets the stage for using technology effectively in the literacy classroom. The authors take the reader step by step through the ongoing cycle of planning, teaching, and assessment in a technology-rich environment. They demonstrate how...
RTI and the Adolescent Reader
Responsive Literacy Instruction in Secondary Schools (Middle and High School)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
RTI and the Adolescent Reader focuses exclusively on Response to Intervention (RTI) for literacy at the secondary level. In this accessible guide, William Brozo defines RTI and explains why and how it is considered a viable intervention model for adolescent readers. He analyzes the authentic structural,...
Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas
A Classroom Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking work redefines traditional ideas of what a “text” should be, incorporating new kinds of multimodal texts to revitalize instruction within and across disciplines. The authors provide examples of innovative representations to aid learning in earth science, language arts,...
Real Talk in Elementary Classrooms
Effective Oral Language Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Describing effective, creative strategies for talking with students in ways that enhance literacy learning, this book offers a window into the classrooms of four exemplary teachers. Principles of productive classroom discussions are illustrated with detailed case examples. The book shows how—and...
Building Literacy with English Language Learners, Second Edition
Insights from Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
How can linguistics help teachers of English language learners (ELLs) improve their instruction? What specific competencies do ELLs need to build in order to speak, listen, read, and write in a new language? Now revised and expanded with a broader view of literacy, this book has guided thousands of...
Reading, Thinking, and Writing About History
Teaching Argument Writing to Diverse Learners in the Common Core Classroom, Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although the Common Core and C3 Framework highlight literacy and inquiry as central goals for social studies, they do not offer guidelines, assessments, or curriculum resources. This practical guide presents six research-tested historical investigations along with all corresponding teaching materials...
Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism
Literacy, Education, and Class
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
The image of the lazy, media-obsessed American, preoccupied with vanity and consumerism, permeates popular culture and fuels critiques of American education. In Reimagining Popular Notions of American Intellectualism, Kelly Susan Bradbury challenges this image by examining and reimagining widespread...