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Reading Diversity through Canadian Picture Books
Preservice Teachers Explore Issues of Identity, Ideology, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
What is the value of picture books in educating a diverse society? This collection of original essays explores how preservice teachers from faculties of education across Canada engage with issues of diversity and national identity as represented in children’s picture books. Based on research drawn...
Rereading Childhood Books
A Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Childhood books play a special role in reading histories, providing touchstones for our future tastes and giving shape to our ongoing identities. Bringing the latest work in Memory Studies to bear on writers' memoirs, autobiographical accounts of reading, and interviews with readers, Rereading Childhood...
Study Guide for Book Clubs: The Overstory
Study Guides for Book Clubs, #38
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2019
Designed for reading groups, this is a comprehensive guide to Richard Powers's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Overstory. This discussion aid includes a wealth of information: thirty-two thought-provoking discussion questions; useful literary and historical context; an author biography; a plot summary;...
by Housel, Debra J.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Climb aboard a time capsule for a trip around the globe and explore 15 different social studies texts with topics ranging from Mesopotamian empires to the Incas. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: World Cultures Through Time is an award-winning resource designed to help all students comprehend important...
by Harry Nap
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Kanji Alchemy is a reallocation of Japanese characters with an emphasis on 490 singular characters that provide a meaningful context for learning 2136 General Use
(Kanji Alchemy I), 861 Jinmei (Kanji Alchemy II) and 3463 Non General Use kanji (Kanji Alchemy III). The 490 "signature" characters...
by Housel, Debra J.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Step into early America and explore 15 differentiated social studies texts with topics ranging from exploring the New World to The Bill of Rights. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: Early America is an award-winning resource designed to help all students grasp important historical people and events...
by Hugo Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from his early encounters with the...
Building Comprehension in Every Classroom
Instruction with Literature, Informational Texts, and Basal Programs
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book presents a practical model and specific unit- and lesson-planning ideas for enhancing students' reading comprehension in any 2-8 classroom. The authors provide innovative suggestions that help teachers construct a comprehension curriculum organized around literature, informational texts,...
Using Paired Text to Meet the Common Core
Effective Teaching across the K-8 Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Teaching students to make connections across related texts promotes engagement and improves reading comprehension and content learning. This practical guide explains how to select and teach a wide range of picture books as paired text--two books related by topic, theme, or genre--in grades K-8. The...
The Plot Thickens
Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image...
by Nicola Cavalli
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Qual è la dimensione sociale della lettura? Cosa intendiamo esattamente per social reading e come si organizza un’attività di questo tipo? Come si collocano le biblioteche di fronte a questa opportunità? Una panoramica chiara e completa per chiarirsi le idee e raccogliere la sfida stimolante del mondo digitale.
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a...
The Literature Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
A global look at the greatest works of Eastern and Western literature and the themes that unite them, for students and lovers of literature and reading.
The Literature Book is a fascinating journey through the greatest works of world literature, from the Iliad to Don Quixote to The Great Gatsby....
by David Shields
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it resists any single interpretation, and it seems to me to constitute nothing less than a new form.” ––Whitney Otto
In this wonderfully...