Literacy category: 816 books
Bring It to Class
Unpacking Pop Culture in Literacy Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students’ backpacks bulge not just with oversize textbooks, but with paperbacks, graphic novels, street lit, and electronics such as iPods and handheld video games. This book is about unpacking those texts to explore previously unexamined assumptions regarding their usefulness to classroom learning....
Teaching Reading and Writing
Improving Instruction and Student Achievement
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
What's the connection between reading and writing, and how should they be taught—both together and separately? Discover the answers in this cutting-edge research volume, ideal for use as a graduate-level text or a trusted professional reference. Featuring groundbreaking contributions from a who's...
Differentiated Literacy Instruction
Assessing, Grouping, Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The goal of this book is to answer the question What is differentiated instruction? It offers pre-service and in-service teachers the background and foundational skills they will need to understand, plan for, and achieve effective differentiated literacy instruction in their classrooms, based on individual...
Assessing Readers
Qualitative Diagnosis and Instruction, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
A Co-publication of Routledge and the International Reading Association
This new edition of Assessing Readers continues to bridge the gap between authentic, informal, and formative assessments, and more traditional quantitative, and summative assessment approaches. At the heart of the book...
The Space and Practice of Reading
A Case Study of Reading and Social Class in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social class in Singapore, one of the top scorers on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests, and questions the rhetoric of social change that does...
Comprehension First
Inquiry into Big Ideas Using Important Questions
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book is about designing instruction that makes comprehension the priority in reading and in content area study. The comprehension model described responds to calls from literacy experts and professional organizations for inquiry-based instruction that prepares readers to be active meaning makers...
by Roy Harris
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from literate societies? Is reason "built in" to the way we think? How is literacy...
We’ve Been Doing It Your Way Long Enough
Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Filled with day-to-day literacy practices, this book will help elementary school teachers understand their role in dismantling the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Chapters take readers into classrooms where they will see, hear, and feel decolonizing and humanizing culturally relevant...
Content Area Literacy Strategies That Work
Do This, Not That!
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Content area teachers are now being tasked with incorporating reading and writing instruction, but what works? In this essential book from Routledge and AMLE, author Lori G. Wilfong describes ten best practices for content area literacy and how to implement them in the middle-level classroom. She...
Literacy Development with English Learners, Second Edition
Research-Based Instruction in Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
As the number of students learning English in elementary schools across the country continues to grow, so does the body of research on their literacy development. This respected course text and teacher resource synthesizes cutting-edge scholarship on how to teach English learners (ELs) at all levels...
Reading the Rainbow
LGBTQ-Inclusive Literacy Instruction in the Elementary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drawing on examples of teaching from elementary school classrooms, this timely book for practitioners explains why LGBTQ-inclusive literacy instruction is possible, relevant, and necessary in grades K–5. The authors show how expanding the English language arts curriculum to include representations...
The Reading Specialist, Third Edition
Leadership and Coaching for the Classroom, School, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A trusted practitioner guide and course text, this book provides a complete introduction to the multiple roles of the reading specialist in grades PreK-12. Rita M. Bean offers evidence-based best practices for working with struggling readers; supporting teachers through professional development and...
The New Literacies
Multiple Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning—and the changing nature of literacy itself—in today's K–12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking sites, text messaging,...
Teaching Discipline-Specific Literacies in Grades 6-12
Preparing Students for College, Career, and Workforce Demands
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Comprehensive, timely, and relevant, this text offers an approach to discipline-specific literacy instruction that is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and the needs of teachers, students, and secondary schools across the nation.
It is essential that teachers know how to provide...