Literacy list 48

Idioms and Other English Expressions Grades 1-3

by Timothy Rasinski
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018

Get ready to "hit a homerun" with strategies and suggestions about how to introduce idioms and incorporate them into your language and writing instruction. They'll "knock your socks off"! Based on Dr. Timothy Rasinski's research, the idioms and expressions in this resource are...

Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction: Fantasy and Science Fiction

by Stephanie Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Inspire students' imaginations and teach the elements of fiction using leveled texts! Support your differentiated instruction with this book featuring excerpts from 15 different classic works including: The Lost World, A Journey into the Center of the Earth, and The Secret Garden. This resource is...

Leveled Texts for Classic Fiction: Humor

by Stephanie Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018

Use the classics to teach the elements of fiction using leveled texts! Support your differentiated instruction with this book featuring passages from 15 different classic works including such titles as: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, and My Father's Dragon. This resource...

Rural Voices

Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place

by Becky Childs, Elizabeth Falconi, Gregory Fulkerson
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018

In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for...

Understanding Language Choices

by Ken Decker, John Grummitt
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017

Understanding Language Choices is an introductory textbook for anyone studying the motivations behind language use choices. It provides an introduction into the numerous factors, both internal and external, influencing such choices in a speech community: language attitudes, language learning, identity,...

The Resilience of Language

What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language

by Susan Goldin-Meadow
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children described in this book make it clear that the answer to this question is 'yes'. The children are congenitally deaf and cannot learn...

Maximizing Effectiveness of Reading Comprehension Instruction in Diverse Classrooms

by Sheri Berkeley, Ph.D., Ana Taboada Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

With 8 million students in Grades 4–12 struggling to read on grade level, effective comprehension instruction is a top priority for middle and high school teachers. This teacher-friendly supplemental textbook fully prepares current and future educators to help all students "read to learn."...

Fossilization in Adult Second Language Acquisition

by Dr. ZhaoHong Han
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2004

This book is a systematic attempt to address the issue of fossilization in relation to a fundamental question in second language acquisition research, which is: why are learners, adults in particular, unable to develop the level of competence they have aspired to in spite of continuous and sustained...

Revue des Deux Mondes avril 2014

La guerre de l'identité

by Jean-Benoît Puech, Frédéric Verger, Gérard Albisson
Language: French
Release Date: April 3, 2014

La question identitaire est devenue, au fil de ces derniers mois, l’épicentre du débat public. L’essai d’Alain Finkielkraut, l’Identité malheureuse (Stock), a trouvé un très large écho en 2013, suscitant ici et là, des polémiques passionnées. La Revue des Deux Mondes a voulu poursuivre...

Dialects at School

Educating Linguistically Diverse Students

by Jeffrey Reaser, Carolyn Temple Adger, Walt Wolfram
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017

Like its predecessor, Dialects in Schools and Communities, this book illuminates major language-related issues that educational practitioners confront, such as responding to dialect related features in students’ speech and writing, teaching Standard English, teaching students about dialects, and...

Reader's Theater Scripts: Improve Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension: Grade 2

by Lisa Zamosky
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017

Set the stage for learning! Improve Grade 2 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 11...

English L2 Reading

Getting to the Bottom

by Barbara M. Birch
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

English L2 Reading, Third Edition offers teachers research-based insights into bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language and a solid foundation on which to build reading instruction. Core linguistic and psycholinguistic concepts are presented within the context of their application...

Continua of Biliteracy

An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research, and Practice in Multilingual Settings

by
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2003

Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible...

Una guía para leer a Mario Vargas Llosa

by Carlos Granés
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 18, 2014