Literacy category: 816 books
by Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
With the rise of new technologies and media, the way we communicate is rapidly changing. Literacies provides a comprehensive introduction to literacy pedagogy within today's new media environment. It focuses not only on reading and writing, but also on other modes of communication, including oral,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
How do students’ online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and influenced...
Accelerating Literacy for Diverse Learners
Classroom Strategies That Integrate Social/Emotional Engagement and Academic Achievement, K–8
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Research indicates that the culturally responsive teaching strategies outlined in this book accelerate literacy, language development, and academic growth for students in grades K–8, particularly for English language learners. Completely revised and updated, this bestselling resource speaks...
Rereading Appalachia
Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Appalachia faces overwhelming challenges that plague many rural areas across the country, including poorly funded schools, stagnant economic development, corrupt political systems, poverty, and drug abuse. Its citizens, in turn, have often been the target of unkind characterizations depicting them...
Diverse Literacies in Early Childhood
A social justice approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This important, research-based text explores the concept of literacy as social practice within diverse family, community and educational settings. Its theoretical premise that literacy learning and life chances are inextricably linked is underscored by practical example, teachers' stories and real-world...
The Activist Learner
Inquiry, Literacy, and Service to Make Learning Matter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This dynamic book explores a variety of ways teachers can integrate service learning to enliven their classroom, meet the unique developmental needs of their students, and satisfy the next generation of standards and assessments. The authors demonstrate how inquiry-based teaching with service learning...
Literacy Policies and Practices in Conflict
Reclaiming Classrooms in Networked Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Current U.S. school reform efforts link school success, student achievement, and teacher performance to standardized tests and narrowly prescribed curricula. How do test-driven, mandated curricula in urban school systems overtly and subtly impact teachers’ efforts to provide technologically advanced,...
Framing Languages and Literacies
Socially Situated Views and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In this seminal volume leading language and literacy scholars clearly articulate and explicate major social perspectives and approaches in the fields of language and literacy studies. Each approach draws on distinct bodies of literature and traditions and uses distinct identifiers, labels, and constellations...
Imagination and Literacy
A Teacher's Search for the Heart of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her newest book, teacher researcher and bestselling author Karen Gallas investigates imagination in the classroom to understand its function in literacy learning. Using rich examples from her elementary classrooms, she proposes that imagination is a central, but untapped, component of learning...
by Belinda Jack
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population. And whilst we think we know what reading is, it remains in many ways a mysterious process, or set of processes. The effects of reading are myriad: it can be informative,...
Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society
Implications of the Work of Jack Goody
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address...
On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms
Approaches to Language and Literacy Research
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to discourse analysis in a way that redefines traditional topics and provokes the imagination of researchers. For those who have...
Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies
Instances of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2006
This book joins two important fields, that of literacy and multimodality, with a focus on local and global literacies. Chapters include work on media, popular culture and literacy, weblogs, global and local crossings, in and out of educational settings in such locations as the US, the UK, South Africa, Australia and Canada.
by Kathryn Au
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book is a sequel to the author's earlier volume entitled, Literacy Instruction in Multicultural Settings. In addition to extensive updating of earlier material, this book extends the content coverage to include issues of power, attitudes, and systemic change through the application of discourse...