Literacy category: 816 books
Handbook of Individual Differences in Reading
Reader, Text, and Context
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The central unifying theme of this state-of-the-art contribution to research on literacy is its rethinking and reconceptualization of individual differences in reading. Previous research, focused on cognitive components of reading, signaled the need for ongoing work to identify relevant individual...
Empowering Struggling Readers
Practices for the Middle Grades
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers--even those who appear to have given up--and fostering their success. The emphasis is on constructing respectful, encouraging learning environments that incorporate students' diverse literacies, cultural interests,...
by Cecelia Cutler
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate with Hip Hop culture. Hip Hop youth engage in practices that range from the consumption of rap music and fashion to practices like MC-ing (writing and performing raps or "rhymes"),...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
A first synthesis of work done in sociolinguistic superdiversity, this volume offers a substantial introduction to the field and the issues and state-of-the-art research papers organized around three themes: Sketching the paradigm, Sociolinguistic complexity, Policing complexity. The focus is to show...
Literature for Young Adults
Books (and More) for Contemporary Readers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Young adults are actively looking for anything that connects them with the changes happening in their lives, and the books discussed throughout Literature for Young Adults have the potential to make that connection and motivate them to read.
It explores a great variety of works, genres, and...
Signs of Cherokee Culture
Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in...
Making Language Matter
Teaching Resources for Meeting the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards in Grades 9-12
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Now adopted by over 40 states, the Common Core State Standards provide a clear and consistent framework for public school systems as they develop student learning goals that define the path to readiness for college, careers, and informed citizenship. While each state is developing its own procedures...
Handbook of Reading Assessment
A One-Stop Resource for Prospective and Practicing Educators
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Handbook of Reading Assessment, Second Edition, covers the wide range of reading assessments educators must be able to use and understand to effectively assess and instruct their students. Comprehensive and filled with numerous authentic examples, the text addresses informal classroom based assessment,...
Handbook of Research on Writing
History, Society, School, Individual, Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2009
The Handbook of Research on Writing ventures to sum up inquiry over the last few decades on what we know about writing and the many ways we know it: How do people write? How do they learn to write and develop as writers? Under what conditions and for what purposes do people write? What resources and...
by Alastair Pennycook
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Language as a Local Practice addresses the questions of language, locality and practice as a way of moving forward in our understanding of how language operates as an integrated social and spatial activity.
By taking each of these three elements – language, locality and practice – and exploring...
by George E. Newell, David Bloome, Alan Hirvela
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning...
The Discourse of Reading Groups
Integrating Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Of interest in their own terms as a significant cultural practice, reading groups also provide a window on the everyday interpretation of literary texts. While reading is often considered a solitary process, reading groups constitute a form of social reading, where interpretations are produced and...
by Socorro G. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Culturally responsive pedagogy, literacy, and English learner education expert Socorro Herrera has updated this bestseller to clarify, focus, and redefine concepts for the continued professional development of educators serving culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) populations. Teaching strategies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
This is an edited book based on papers presented at a 2003 invitee-only conference under the sponsorship of the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. The participants were prominent scholars in the areas of language and reading, and have research programs funded by NIH and other...