Literacy category: 816 books
Inspiring Dialogue
Talking to Learn in the English Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Inspiring Dialogue helps new English teachers make dialogic teaching practices a central part of their development as teachers, while also supporting veteran teachers who would like new ideas for inspiring talk in their classrooms. Chapter by chapter, the book follows novice teachers as they build...
Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts
The Methodology Chapters From the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Sponsored by International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition. An introduction, designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research...
The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write
Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children’s lives—church and hip–hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays—upon...
Power, Resistance, and Literacy
Writing for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Students in public schools serving poor and workingclass students are inundated by the effects of highstakes examinations. Teachers are demoralized and students suffer substandard curricular and pedagogical experiences. These effects are articulated by students and teachers in the high school that provided...
by Sigmund Brouwer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Bestselling author Sigmund Brouwer brings his unique sense of play to the serious business of learning to read and write. Armed with music, humor and heart, he connects the dots for people who work with kids to cultivate reading and writing skills.
Multiliteracies
Beyond Text and the Written Word
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Multiliteracies: Beyond Text and the Written Word emphasizes literacies which are, or have been, common in American culture, but which tend to be ignored in more traditional discussions of literacy—specifically textual literacy. By describing multiliteracies or alternative literacies, and how they...
Untangling Urban Middle School Reform
Clashing Agendas for Literacy Standards and Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At Rosa Parks, a middle school in a crime-ridden neighborhood, students are advised to “do as they are told” and they will succeed. Unfortunately, “doing what they are told” often translates into repeating information given to them by the teacher, especially when it comes to...
Knowledge Development in Early Childhood
Sources of Learning and Classroom Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Synthesizing cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines, this book explores how young children acquire knowledge in the "real world" and describes practical applications for early childhood classrooms. The breadth and depth of a child's knowledge base are important predictors of later...
Reading in Asian Languages
Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive...
Teaching Speaking and Listening
One Step at a Time, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book offers a systematic yet flexible programme for teaching spoken language one step at a time. It targets the essential spoken language skills crucial for every child's educational development - Conversation; Listening; Narrative; Discussion -and provides auditing tools, checklists and guidance...
Don't Leave the Story in the Book
Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Passion and wonder are in short supply in schools these days. If you want to bring powerful stories into your classroom that inspire curiosity and questions, spark deep thinking and cultivate thoughtful conversations, embrace this book!” —Anne Goudvis, consultant and author“Don’t...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In this volume a range of authors from different international contexts argue that the notion of communicative competence in English, hitherto largely referenced to metropolitan native-speaker norms, has to be expanded to take account of diverse contexts of use for a variety of purposes. It also discusses...
Envisioning Knowledge
Building Literacy in the Academic Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This updated text argues that literature fosters ways of thinking that go far beyond understanding the conventions of genre and text. It involves literate thinking that takes students beyond improved performance on high-stakes tests and prepares them for their future in the 21st century. This revision...