Literacy category: 816 books
CLASH!
Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
This book offers ideas that secondary teachers, university content faculty, and teacher educators can use to challenge traditional literacy practices and demonstrate creative, innovative ways of incorporating new literacies into the classroom, all within a strong theoretical framework. Teachers are...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such...
Integrating Literature in the Content Areas
Enhancing Adolescent Learning and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
This practical, accessible resource will help future and practicing teachers integrate literature into their middle school or high school classrooms, while also addressing content area standards and improving the literacy skills of their students.
Two introductory chapters are followed by five...
by Richard Hoggart
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how texts-in this case, mass publications-are stitched...
by Maxine Burton
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This clearly written, accessible guide outlines the principles of sentence combining – the technique for expanding sentence structure by creating compound and complex sentences from simple sentences. Sentence combining is the one aspect of grammar teaching that has been demonstrated through research...
Literacy Leadership to Support Reading Improvement
Intervention Programs and Balanced Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Packed with vivid examples from actual schools, this book explores specific ways that literacy leaders can partner with teachers to meet all students' instructional needs. It provides a range of research-based strategies for implementing effective instruction in a response-to-intervention framework....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Bringing together prominent scholars, this book shows how 21st-century research and theory can inform everyday instructional practices in early childhood classrooms (PreK-3). Coverage includes foundational topics such as alphabet learning, phonological awareness, oral language development, and learning...
Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum
A Literacy-Based Framework and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.
Using Apps...
Dialoguing across Cultures, Identities, and Learning
Crosscurrents and Complexities in Literacy Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Drawing on Dialogical Self Theory, this book presents a new framework for social and cultural identity construction in the literacy classroom, offering possibilities for how teachers might adjust their pedagogy to better support the range of cultural stances present in all classrooms.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays. Leading experts explain how current research on all aspects of literacy translates into innovative...
by Elaine Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture.
Drawing on personal experience, Elaine Richardson provides a compelling account of the language and literacy practices of...
Literacy Practices and Perceptions of Agency
Composing Identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
In this book, Bronwyn T. Williams explores how perceptions of agency—whether a person perceives and feels able to read and write successfully in a given context—are critical in terms of how people perform their literate identities. Drawing on interviews and observations with students in several...
Support Your Child With Literacy
In Their First Year at School
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The first day at school is the day when an adventure of life-long learning begins and with a positive attitude your child will learn all the skills needed to equip them for adult life. The first year in school sets down the building blocks upon which all other learning takes place. Supporting your child...
Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom
Being the Book and Being the Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“These inspirational findings confirm the highest values of democratic education and offer an inspiring vision of what it truly means to put students first. The authors not only describe the future of English Studies, but its best current practices and its deep historical legacy. This book is...