Literacy category: 816 books
by Kathy Barco, Melanie Borski-Howard
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Literacy is a popular topic of discussion among librarians. Especially important is "early literacy," what children know about reading and writing before they can actually read and write. In this book, experienced librarians Kathy Barco and Melanie Borski-Howard share hands-on techniques...
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
Changing Literacies for Changing Times
An Historical Perspective on the Future of Reading Research, Public Policy, and Classroom Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Offering the wisdom that only experience and expertise in the field can bring, this book takes a critical look into the present and the future of literacy as envisioned by leading reading researchers. The lead author of each chapter, and in some cases more than one, of the authors, is a distinguished...
Don't Call it Literacy!
What every teacher needs to know about speaking, listening, reading and writing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
"Every teacher in English is a teacher of English," said George Sampson, one of the early school inspectors, back in 1921. It’s never been truer, or more relevant.
Literacy has a major impact on young people’s life-chances and it is every teacher’s responsibility to help build...
Educating Literacy Teachers Online
Tools, Techniques, and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a comprehensive guide for literacy teacher educators and professional development trainers who teach and work in online settings. The authors provide tools, techniques, and resources for developing courses, workshops, and other online learning experiences, including blended/hybrid delivery...
Fashioning Lives
Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Honorable Mention, 2018 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award
Winner, Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship from CCCC, 2018
Winner, Advancement of Knowledge Award from CCCC, 2018
Winner, Outstanding Book Award from the Conference on Community Writing, 2017
Fashioning...
Dimensions of Literacy
A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This popular text, now in its fourth edition, “unpacks” the various dimensions of literacy—linguistic and other sign systems; cognitive; sociocultural; and developmental—and at the same time accounts for the interrelationships among them. Distinguished by its examination of literacy from a...
The Best for Our Children
Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This watershed volume brings together the foremost leading authorities and scholars lending their individual voices to a single, urgent issue: literacy for Latino students. In a departure from traditional paradigms, Latinos examine their own lived experiences in U.S. schools and offer sound theories...
Engaging Students in Disciplinary Literacy, K-6
Reading, Writing, and Teaching Tools for the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This accessible book will help elementary school teachers improve literacy instruction inside or outside the Common Core environment. The authors address teachers’ instructional needs by introducing key concepts from current trends in literacy education—from high-level standards to the use of...
Materializing Literacies in Communities
The Uses of Literacy Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
What is a 'contemporary' understanding of literacy practices? How can 'literacy' be explained and situated? This book addresses literacy practices research, understanding it as both material and spatial, based in homes and communities, as well as in formal educational settings. It addresses a need...
Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?
Why Expertise Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is whose knowledge is considered in framing government...
by Allison Skerrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book to specifically address the needs of transnational youth, a growing population of students who live and go to school across the United States and other nations including Mexico and different Caribbean islands. The author describes a coherent approach to English language arts...
Literacy and Advocacy in Adolescent Family, Gang, School, and Juvenile Court Communities
Crip 4 Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
The goal of this book is to encourage educators and researchers to understand the complexities of adolescent gang members' lives in order to rethink their assumptions about these students in school. The particular objective is to situate four gang members as literate, caring students from loving families...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Literacy researchers at all stages of their careers are designing and developing innovative new methods for analyzing data in a range of spaces in and out of school. Directly connected with evolving themes in literacy research, theory, instruction, and practices—especially in the areas of digital...