Literacy category: 816 books
Literacy behind Bars
Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Literacy behind Bars: Successful Reading and Writing Strategies for Use with Incarcerated Youth and Adults is a practical resource for teachers, librarians, administrators, and community stakeholders who work with incarcerated youth and adults. The book includes examples of authentic literacy practices...
Breaking Through the Language Arts Block
Organizing and Managing the Exemplary Literacy Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This innovative book helps K–6 teachers infuse the entire school day with research-based literacy best practices. Classroom-tested strategies are presented for planning and implementing each component of the "exemplary literacy day"--vocabulary and word study sessions, literacy work stations,...
Social Literacies
Critical Approaches to Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current trend towards a broader consideration of literacy as social practices, and as its title suggests, it focuses on the social nature of reading and writing and the multiple character of literacy practices.
Moving Critical Literacies Forward
A New Look at Praxis Across Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Taking the pulse of current efforts to do—and, in some cases, undo—critical literacy, this volume explores and critiques its implementation in learning contexts around the globe. An impressive set of international authors offer examples of productive critical literacy practices in and out of schools,...
Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning
Multimodality and Governmentality
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Negotiating Spaces for Literacy Learning addresses two paradoxical currents that are sweeping through the contemporary educational field. The first is the opening up of possibilities for multimodal communication as a result of developments in digital technologies and the sensitivity to multiliteracies....
by Fresch, Mary Jo
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
This easy-to-follow guide is filled with practical approaches to help teachers transition towards a balanced literacy framework. Designed for both newer and veteran teachers alike, this straightforward book offers simple techniques and concrete strategies to nurture reading and writing skills through...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Teacher leadership is a critical component of effective curriculum assessment and professional development. With teacher-led inquiry being utilized, schools can better improve their learning programs. Literacy Program Evaluation and Development Initiatives for P-12 Teaching is a pivotal resource for...
by Evan Ortlieb
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This text provides rich discussions of learning processes and subsequent pedagogical approaches to the implementation of these new theories in practice. Section One emphasizes how students learn, retain, and synthesize new information from print and digital literacies using cognitive and social psychology...
Literacies, Learning, and the Body
Putting Theory and Research into Pedagogical Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring into the range of ways people communicate and express themselves as literate beings. The contributors investigate...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The volume highlights best practices of literacy instruction for students who have difficulties in reading. From components of effective pedagogy to instruction for specific populations, this text offers an array of expert perspectives on how to engage, scaffold, and prepare students to meet the multimodal...
Reading Time
The Literate Lives of Urban Secondary Students and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While teachers cannot travel back in time to visit their students at earlier ages, they can draw on the rich sets of experiences and knowledge that students bring to classrooms. In her latest book, Catherine Compton-Lilly examines the literacy practices and school trajectories of eight middle school...
Exploring Critical Digital Literacy Practices
Everyday Video in a Dual Language Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
In this book, Jessica Zacher Pandya examines the everyday videomaking practices of students in a dual language, under-resourced school in order to explore the ways children interrogate their worlds, the kinds of identities they craft, and the language and literacy learning practices that emerge from...
Literacy Teacher Education
Principles and Effective Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Few resources exist to give literacy teacher educators a comprehensive view of effective, innovative practices in their field, making this uniquely practical volume an important addition to the literature. Each chapter describes research findings and pedagogical methods, with an emphasis on what teachers...
by Jay Derrick, Kathryn Ecclestone, Judith Gawn
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
This book provides practical ideas for teachers of adult literacy, language and numeracy in their day to day work of lesson preparation, teaching and assessment. Relevant for all levels and contexts, it focuses on basic principles of student-centred learning, teaching and assessment that put the goal...