Literacy category: 816 books
Clarel by Herman Melville
A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well...
Logomania
Fate & Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
LOGOMANIA: FATE & FORTUNE takes a look at Chinese and Western horoscope signs and the history of related popular phrases. If you have ever wondered why a rabbit punch is so dangerous, what fishing in troubled waters is about, or whether having the Midas touch is lucky...
Bilingual Deaf and Hearing Families
Narrative Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This study emphasizes the importance of family support for deaf members, particularly through the use of both American Sign Language (ASL) and spoken and/or written English. Research has shown how these factors influence such areas as a child’s development, performance in school, and relationships...
Code Black
Winter of Storm Surfing
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The true story of the daredevils who took on the force of nature ... and won Winter 2013-14: six of the most enormous storms ever to show up in the North Atlantic slammed in to the UK. As buildings fell and valleys flooded, one group of maverick Welsh surfers tackled the sea head-on. Code Black tells...
Critical Literacies
Global and Multicultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
This book offers comprehensive coverage of critical literacies by pursuing a balanced approach to theory, research, and practice. By clarifying the gaps among the frameworks of critical literacies, the author discusses new ways of approaching them from global and multicultural perspectives and provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Published by Routledge for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
This volume addresses the pressing reality in teacher education that all teachers need to be prepared to work effectively with linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. Every classroom...
Linking Families, Learning, and Schooling
Parent–Researcher Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Parents who are also educational researchers have access to a domain that is highly complex and not always available to other scholars. In this book, parent-researchers provide theoretical and practical insights into children’s learning in the home and at school. Readers are given a window into...
by Molly Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Take the sumptuousness of Molly Peacock's own #1 bestselling The Paper Garden, the extraordinary creative variety of The Bedside Book of Birds, and the cat-nip-for-language-geeks appeal of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and wrap it around tales rich with wisdom and humanity, and you get Alphabetique: the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
Examining the overseas experience of language learners in diverse contexts through a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, studies in this volume look at the acquisition of language use, socialization processes, learner motivation, identity and learning strategies. In this way, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Around the world, children embark on learning to read in their home language or writing system. But does their specific language, and how it is written, make a difference to how they learn? How is learning to read English similar to or different from learning in other languages? Is reading alphabetic...
Advanced Compositions For Primary 6
Based on commonly tested topics and PSLE questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Generating interesting and effective plots for school compositions is a challenge for many students. Sometimes, the difficulty is encountered when students are inadequately taught the fundamental techniques of creative writing. Other times, students lack high-quality resources from which they can...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Language Testing Reconsidered provides a critical update on major issues that have engaged the field of language testing since its inception. Anyone who is working in, studying or teaching language testing should have a copy of this book. The information, discussions, and reflections offered within...
Reading at a Crossroads?
Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same...
Teaching Informational Text in K-3 Classrooms
Best Practices to Help Children Read, Write, and Learn from Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Specifically designed for K-3 teachers, this accessible guide describes ways to use informational text creatively and effectively in both reading and writing instruction. The book presents lessons, read-alouds, and activities that motivate students to engage with a wide variety of exemplary texts....