Language Arts category: 28677 books
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...
Literacy and History in Action
Immersive Approaches to Disciplinary Thinking, Grades 5–12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a solid research and theoretical foundation for combining social studies and literacy instruction. A collaboration between a literacy scholar, two classroom teachers, and a school librarian, this volume also shows teachers how to engage middle and high school students in historical...
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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...
Teaching Information Fluency
How to Teach Students to Be Efficient, Ethical, and Critical Information Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Teaching Information Fluency describes the skills and dispositions of information fluency adept searchers. Readers will receive in-depth information on what it takes to locate, evaluate, and ethically use digital information.
The book realistically examines the abilities of Internet searchers...
by Nick Birch
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Communications - Theories, Models, Terms and Definitions, grade: 1.3, Central Queensland University, course: Applied Communication Arts, language: English, abstract: The Knowledge Gap Theory of Communication is primarily concerned with the unequal distribution...
by William G. Brozo, Gary Moorman, Carla Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Graphic novels are an excellent medium to motivate today’s youth to become independent learners and thinkers. This practical guide shows secondary school teachers how to incorporate graphic novels into content area instruction as a tool for meeting the needs of diverse learners and achieving...
Our Worlds in Our Words
Exploring Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Orientation in Multicultural Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can teachers help their students to meet high standards of reading and writing while also preparing them to become thoughtful and productive members of a multicultural society? And why is it important to do this? In her new book, Mary Dilg brings us into her high school English classroom, where...
English as a Medium of Instruction in Higher Education
Implementations and Classroom Practices in Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book presents the multiple facets of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education across various academic disciplines, an area that is expected to grow constantly in response to the competitive global higher education market. The studies presented were conducted in various EMI...
by Stefan Fößel
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2007
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject Communications - Theories, Models, Terms and Definitions, grade: A, Malmö University (School of Arts and Communication), course: Media and culture studies as research field, 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: What makes news?...
The Elements of English
A Glossary of Basic Terms for Literature, Composition, and Grammar
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Stan Malles and Jeff McQuain have written this brief, yet very important glossary in the spirit of E.D. Hirsch’s bestselling Cultural Literacy. Here is a dictionary of basic terms for literature, composition, and grammar that every American, no matter their age, needs to know.
Perfect for...
by Nick Coates
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
All you need to encourage a love and enthusiasm for reading and writing from a young age.
Benefit from the experience of key educators across the Caribbean regions who have carefully designed this resource to give your KG students exactly the right introduction to the Language Arts curriculum.
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Assessing the Common Core
What's Gone Wrong--and How to Get Back on Track
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2015
From distinguished educators, this book imagines what our schools could look like if an authentic vision of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were put in place, and thoughtfully critiques how and why implementation has faltered. The authors outline a curriculum framework that focuses on student-based...
by David Spark, Geoffrey Harris
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 1997
This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers:
What is news?
How the modern newsroom operates
How facts are gathered and checked
The reporter and picture ideas
District reporting
Techniques of interviewing
News writing and...
Beckett on Web 2.0
Damned to fail...fail better
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Siegen (Sprach-, Literatur- und Medienwissenschaften), course: Samuel Beckett - Playwright, Novelist and Writer for the TV-Screen, language: English, abstract: Samuel Beckett certainly was one of...