Literacy category: 816 books
A Case for Teaching Literature in the Secondary School
Why Reading Fiction Matters in an Age of Scientific Objectivity and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Taking a close look at the forces that affect English education in schools—at the ways literature, cognitive science, the privileging of the STEM disciplines, and current educational policies are connected—this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach...
by Christine Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Students love the stage! Improve Grade 1 students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful reading practice for performance. You'll motivate students with these easy-to-implement reader's theater scripts that also build students' knowledge through grade-level content. Book includes 12 original...
Grammar to Get Things Done
A Practical Guide for Teachers Anchored in Real-World Usage
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Grammar to Get Things Done offers a fresh lens on grammar and grammar instruction, designed for middle and secondary pre-service and in-service English teachers. It shows how form, function, and use can help teachers...
A Call to Creativity
Writing, Reading, and Inspiring Students in an Age of Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this age of standardization, many English teachers are unsure about how to incorporate creative writing and thinking into their classroom. In a fresh new voice, Luke Reynolds emphasizes that “creativity in our lives as teachers and in the lives of our students is one of our most vital needs...
Reading the Web, Second Edition
Strategies for Internet Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Today's students need to know how to locate, comprehend, evaluate, and use online information efficiently and effectively. This widely used teacher guide and course text provides a framework for maximizing students' critical, creative use of the Web in grades 3-8. Research-based strategies for instruction...
Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms
A Layered Literacies Approach to Multimodal Meaning Making
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Integrating Virtual and Traditional Learning in 6-12 Classrooms introduces a model of "layered literacies" as a framework for describing and illustrating how students’ digital experiences can inform educational methods. Through the lens of layered literacies, educators can envision opportunities...
by Christine Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Rewind time with the classics as you teach literature in the classroom using leveled texts! Support your differentiated instruction with this book featuring passages from 15 different classic works including such titles as: Little Women, The Lords of the Wild, Ann of Green Gables, The Prince and the...
Language and Globalization
An Autoethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
In this collection of real-life, personal narratives on the theme of language and globalization, scholars from a range of different sub-disciplines of linguistics, time periods, and geographical spaces throughout the world examine the interaction and intersectionality of languages and globalization and...
What English Language Teachers Need to Know Volume II
Facilitating Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Designed for pre-service teachers and teachers new to the field of ELT, Volume II and its companion* *are companion textbook, Volume I, are volumes organized around the key question: What do teachers need to know and be able to do in order for their students to learn English? Volume I covers the...
by Bruce Saddler, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area. The author explains the key role of sentence combining in the writing process and presents effective techniques for instruction and assessment. Numerous sample lessons,...
Write Now!
Empowering Writers in Today's K6 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reissue of ILA bestseller.To become truly college and career ready, students need to be able to communicate effectively in writing, and teachers need to be confident and prepared to teach writing in ways that motivate, encourage, and challenge students to higher levels. In this practical volume,...
Representing Rape
Language and sexual consent
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions of the events...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this comprehensive handbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the nature and classification of learning disabilities (LD), their causes, and how individuals with these difficulties can be identified and helped to succeed. Best practices...
Physical Activity and Learning After School
The PAL Program
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Every school day, more than 10 million children attend after-school programs in the United States. This book provides a research-based blueprint for offering students in grades 1-5 innovative programming that combines intensive physical activity and social–emotional skills development with academic...