Literacy category: 816 books
by Kathryn Starke
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Tackle Reading is a resource that will motivate children, support parents, and inspire teachers and fellow educators to love literacy. This book contains stories written by NFL players, celebrities, and authors who are passionate about reading education. It also includes pieces, lesson plans, activities,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Literacy researchers interested in how specific sites of learning situate students and the ways they make sense of their worlds are asking new questions and thinking in new ways about how time and space operate as contextual dimensions in the learning lives of students, teachers, and families. These...
Shoptalk
Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Shoptalk examines the development of literacy, identity, and thinking skills that takes place through cross generation conversation in an African American hair salon and how it can inform teaching in today’s diverse classrooms. By shining a spotlight on verbal discussions between the salon’s...
Multimodal Composing in Classrooms
Learning and Teaching for the Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Taking a close look at multimodal composing as an essential new literacy in schools, this volume draws from contextualized case studies across educational contexts to provide detailed portraits of teachers and students at work in classrooms. Authors elaborate key issues in transforming classrooms...
Academic Literacies in the Middle Years
A Framework for Enhancing Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers’ understandings of how language functions in their academic disciplines. This framework—a 4 x 4 metalinguistic toolkit—is informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and international educational research...
by Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.
By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as...
Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies
Narratives of Hope, Power, and Vision
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
At a time when literacy has become more of a political issue than a research or pedagogical one, this volume refocuses attention on work with young children that places them at the center of their literacy worlds. Drawing on robust and growing knowledge which is often marginalized because of political...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
For the last five years or so, there has been a universal increase in expectations for academic writing alongside high-stakes tests, as students must master writing for pragmatic purposes including argumentative papers, dialogic narratives, and even research reports. All the while, research related...
Discovering Media Literacy
Teaching Digital Media and Popular Culture in Elementary School
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Give digital kids a voice!
Today’s kids are digital natives, but what’s the best way to help them become empowered and responsible communicators across different media? Discover insights and strategies specific to reaching children ages 5-12 in this guide from a nationally-acclaimed media...
Child Cultures, Schooling, and Literacy
Global Perspectives on Composing Unique Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Through analysis of case studies of young children (ages 3 to 8 years), situated in different geographic, cultural, linguistic, political, and socioeconomic sites on six continents, this book examines the interplay of childhoods, schooling, and, literacies. Written language is situated within particular...
Landmarks in Literacy
The Selected Works of Frank Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Frank Smith is internationally acclaimed as an essential contributor to research on the nature of reading and as an originator of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction. In his publications his aim has always been to support teachers, to encourage them to make teaching decisions...
Critical Media Pedagogy
Teaching for Achievement in City Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“In this important new book the authors present a compelling case for broadening the way we think about literacy in relation to the ‘new media.’ Through compelling case studies, they examine the ways in which youth engage this medium both as active participants and producers of new,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today — literacy and technology — this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major...
Reading Students' Lives
Literacy Learning across Time
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Reading Students’ Lives documents literacy practices across time as children move through school, with a focus on issues of schooling, identity construction, and how students and their parents make sense of students’ lives across time. The final book in a series of four that track a group of low-income...