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Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain
The Victorian Reading Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This book explores Victorian readers’ consumption of a wide array of reading matter. Established scholars and emerging researchers examine nineteenth-century audience encounters with print culture material such as periodicals, books in series, cheap serials, and broadside ballads. Two key strands...
Lit Up
One Reporter. Three Schools. Twenty-four Books That Can Change Lives.
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
A bestselling author and distinguished critic goes back to high school to find out whether books can shape lives
It's no secret that millions of American teenagers, caught up in social media, television, movies, and games, don't read seriously-they associate sustained reading with duty or work,...
by Ann Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author’s year-long journey through a book from every country.
Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than twenty years of reading,...
Bestseller
A Century of America's Favorite Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really good book. And regardless of how one accesses...
Developing Effective Literacy Intervention Strategies
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
As reading is vital to success in life and opens the door to nearly all other learning opportunities, it is essential that educators understand why students with learning how to read. Therefore, it is key for both professionals and researchers to establish their own approaches to assist those with...
by Anthony Giordano
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
You Can Teach Your Child To Read Better Today is a clear, concise description of reading and the learning process. Written in easy to understand terms, it enables anyone to teach reading to anyone.
The book walks the reader through the concepts needed to understand why a student isn't learning and...
Teaching Skills for Complex Text
Deepening Close Reading in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tired of hearing about “complex text”? Bothered by the pushy messages about “challenge”? This book is for you! Unlike the many other materials on text complexity, this one focuses on specific comprehension skills that students need in order to really engage with text. This...
Unfinished Business
Notes of a Chronic Re-reader
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2020
One of our most beloved writers reassess the electrifying works of literature that have shaped her life
I sometimes think I was born reading . . . I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me.
Unfinished Business: Notes of a...
Mere Reading
The Poetics of Wonder in Modern American Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Mere Reading argues for a return to the foundations of literary study established nearly a century ago. Following a recent period dominated by symptomatic analyses of fictional texts (new historicist, Marxist, feminist, identity-political),...
B & Me
A True Story of Literary Arousal
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
“A love letter to the book as a physical object, a source of intellectual ardor, and a form of emotional salvation” (Salon)—and a nod to U and I, Nicholson Baker’s classic memoir about John Updike—from an award-winning author called “wonderfully bright” by The New York Times Book Review.
Nearly...
by Danny Brassell, Timothy Rasinski
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Energize your reading instruction through innovative, engaging reading strategies that will empower you to improveyour students' comprehension. Written by Drs. Timothy Rasinski and Danny Brassell, these unique classroom-tested strategies integrate current research with real-life observation of diverse...
Break It Down!
Boost Your College Reading Comprehension
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Heres a witty, engaging, and dynamic interactive guide that uses sparkling dialogue, riveting characters, and appealing graphics to pique and hold the interest of students even those who dont like to read to help them in college-level reading comprehension. Break It Down! tries to improve and sharpen...
Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook
Eighth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated for a new generation of readers
Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three...
Socially Responsible Literacy
Teaching Adolescents for Purpose and Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book offers a new vision for teaching literacy to adolescents that moves beyond reading for its own sake and toward reading as a way to motivate students to connect with their world. The authors draw on the voices of adolescent readers to discover how teachers can encourage their students to...