Literacy category: 816 books
Thinking Tools for Young Readers and Writers
Strategies to Promote Higher Literacy in Grades 28
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her new book, bestselling author and professional developer Carol Booth Olson and colleagues show teachers how to help young readers and writers construct meaning from and with texts. This practical resource offers a rich array of research-based teaching strategies, activities, and extended lessons...
by Sandra Lee Mckay, James Dean Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
English today is a global language embedded in a great variety of social contexts, resulting in linguistic and pedagogical variation. Taking a new look at the teaching and assessing of English as an international language (EIL), this text highlights overarching principles and provides specific strategies...
by Colin Harrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Discover how to effectively use technology to support students' literacy development. New classroom uses for technology are introduced in this easy-to-use resource that help educators enhance students' attention, engagement, creativity, and collaboration in reading and learning. Great for struggling...
The Achievement Gap in Reading
Complex Causes, Persistent Issues, Possible Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this volume prominent scholars, experts in their respective fields and highly skilled in the research they conduct, address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and address what it will take to close the achievement gap—with specific attention to reading. The achievement...
Reading and Writing in Preschool
Teaching the Essentials
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book describes effective, engaging ways to build young children's print concepts and alphabetic knowledge, which are crucial for both reading and writing development. Presenting shared reading, shared writing, and targeted instructional activities, each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes,...
Linguistically Diverse Immigrant and Resident Writers
Transitions from High School to College
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Spotlighting the challenges and realities faced by linguistically diverse immigrant and resident students in U.S. secondary schools and in their transitions from high school to community colleges and universities, this book looks at programs, interventions, and other factors that help or hinder them...
Katrina's Sandcastles
New Hope From The Ruins of New Orleans Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
“The first thing I need you to know is that becoming a teacher was the most important thing that ever happened to me.” With these words, Kaycee Eckhardt begins a journey both harrowing and hopeful: The story of becoming an effective teacher, of building a new school, and of changing the face of...
Teacher Talk, Books 1-4, Special Edition
Teacher Talk, #5
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
A sweet combination of all four Teacher Talk books in one; with some additional fun material.
How to Say It, Third Edition
Choice Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs for Every Situation
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
**For anyone who has ever searched for the right word at a crucial moment, the revised third edition of this bestselling guide offers a smart and succinct way to say everything
One million copies sold!**
How to Say It® provides clear and practical guidance for what to say--and what...
by Jason Mohammad
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
First-hand account from the heart of Welsh sporting action. One of the country's most recognized sport presenters - Jason has rubbed shoulders with the greats: from Brazilian footballers Zico, Ronaldinho and Juninho; to rugby giants Graham Henry, Lawrence Dallaglio and Martin Johnson; and even filmstar...
by Mark J Dawson, Pip Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
There’s world of opportunity out there for authors on Pinterest if you know how to use it.
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Best of all, every author...
by P. D. James
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In a perfect marriage of author and subject, P. D. James—one of the most widely admired writers of detective fiction at work today—gives us a personal, lively, illuminating exploration of the human appetite for mystery and mayhem, and of those writers who have satisfied it.
P. D. James...
The Adventure of English
The Biography of a Language
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows how English conquered the world. It is a magnificent...
by Alan Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America....