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Helping English Learners in Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Increasing the mastery of reading and text literacy in the general population is one of the most important challenges faced by both developed and developing societies. Providing a new reference for researchers and practitioners involved in this domain, this book brings together empirical research...
Literacy Teaching and Learning in Rural Communities
Problematizing Stereotypes, Challenging Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
This definitive look at teaching English in rural secondary schools contests current definitions and discussions of rural education, examines their ideological and cultural foundations, and presents an alternative perspective that conceptualizes rural communities as diverse, unique, and conducive...
Teaching Global Literature in Elementary Classrooms
A Critical Literacy and Teacher Inquiry Approach
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Demonstrating the power of teaching global literature from a critical literacy perspective, this book explores the ways that K-6 educators can infuse diverse texts into their classrooms and find support for their endeavours in teacher inquiry communities. Through carefully analyzed, ethnographically...
Children's Literature in the Reading Program, Fifth Edition
Engaging Young Readers in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
This indispensable teacher resource and course text, now revised and updated, addresses the "whats," "whys," and "how-tos" of incorporating outstanding children's literature into the K–8 reading program. A strong emphasis on diverse literature is woven throughout the...
Teaching Outside the Box but Inside the Standards
Making Room for Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students’ interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today’s diverse student population...
Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses
Critical Issues and Challenges for Teacher Educators in Top-Down Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses showcases innovative work in teacher education that fosters teachers’ capacities as reflective practitioners and public intellectuals; extends traditional boundaries of methods courses on teaching the English language arts, literacy, children’s...
Teaching Culturally Sustaining and Inclusive Young Adult Literature
Critical Perspectives and Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
In this book, Rodríguez uses theories of critical literacy and culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA) literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse readers and all students. This book provides...
Building on Strength
Language and Literacy in Latino Families and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tackling mainstream views, leading researchers and teacher trainers examine language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write. The text suggests universal practices to facilitate language socialization in multilingual communities,...
Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers
Theoretical Foundations and Pedagogical Resources for Pre-Service and In-Service Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical framework and detailed examples, pedagogical...
True to the Language Game
African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
In True to the Language Game, Keith Gilyard, one of the major African American figures to emerge in language and cultural studies, makes his most seminal work available in one volume. This collection of new and previously published essays contains Gilyard’s most relevant scholarly contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
The growth of a knowledge-based economy and an information society has meant that literacy increasingly mediates our lives and activities. Literacy has also been a way of critically comprehending the world in order to make it different and better. It is an important tool for increasing the autonomy...
My Heartfelt Passion
Saving Our Nation One Child at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
In modern American society, the child who grows up without learning to read does not have a prayer when it comes to achieving true success in life. Unfortunately, this is the case for several million of our nation’s children. According to an April 2017 study by the U.S. Department of Education and...
Deepening Literacy Learning
Art and Literature Engagements in K8 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010