Literacy category: 816 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
At the forefront in its field, this Handbook examines the theoretical, conceptual, pedagogical and methodological development of media literacy education and research around the world. Building on traditional media literacy frameworks in critical analysis, evaluation, and assessment, it incorporates...
Pivotal Research in Early Literacy
Foundational Studies and Current Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This reader-friendly text examines the key foundational studies in early literacy. It addresses such essential questions as how research informs current practices and where the field still needs to go to provide the best learning opportunities for all children. Each chapter describes the methods and...
Style, Identity and Literacy
English in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction – both inside and outside the classroom – to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home,...
Re-framing Literacy
Teaching and Learning in English and the Language Arts
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Imaginative and attractive, cutting edge in its conception, this text explicates a model for the integration of language arts and literacy education based on the notion of framing. The act of framing – not frames in themselves – provides a creative and critical approach to English as a subject....
Language, Literacy and Diversity
Moving Words
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation...
Inclusive Literacy Teaching
Differentiating Approaches in Multilingual Elementary Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Responding to the need to prepare elementary teachers for the increasing linguistic diversity in schools, this book presents key foundational principles in language and literacy development for linguistically diverse students. Readers see these ideas enacted through the journeys of real students as...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
While current educational technologies have the potential to fundamentally enhance literacy education, many of these tools remain unknown to or unused by today’s practitioners due to a lack of access and support. Adaptive Educational Technologies for Literacy Instruction presents actionable information...
Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground
The Expert Study Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
In Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground, Second Edition, Rona F. Flippo revisits her groundbreaking Expert Study, in which she set out to find common ground among experts in the much-fragmented field of reading research. The original edition, featuring contributions from participants in...
Harlem on Our Minds
Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“One of the many attributes of this book is the wide range of voices, perspectives, and literacy practices that are brought together to illuminate conditions of living and learning at the intersection of race and place. . . . Harlem is in focus in this book, but it is merely a placeholder...
Teenagers, Literacy and School
Researching in Multilingual Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of literacy in their daily lives and the differences between home and school. The author looks at the conflict between expectations and practices at school and in...
Literacy Processes
Cognitive Flexibility in Learning and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Reading and writing instruction require individuals--both students and teachers--to flexibly process many kinds of information, from a variety of sources. This is the first book to provide an in-depth examination of cognitive flexibility: how it develops across the lifespan; its role in specific literacy...
Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement
Arts, Media, and Literacy in the Lives of Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages...
Critical Literacies and Young Learners
Connecting Classroom Practice to the Common Core
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Many pre-service and beginning early childhood teachers question if critical literacy is do-able with young children, particularly in the current top-down educational climate. Critical Literacies and Young Learners shows how it is possible, even in the context of the mandates and pressures so many...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Ken and Yetta Goodman are renowned and revered worldwide for their pioneering, influential work in the field of reading/literacy education. In this volume major literacy scholars from around the world pay tribute to their work and offer glimpses of what the future of literacy research and practice...