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Emergent Literacy and Language Development
Promoting Learning in Early Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2009
This concise, accessible book explores the connection between language acquisition and emergent literacy skills, and how this sets the stage for later literacy development. Chapters address formative early experiences such as speaking and listening, being read to, and talking about print concepts...
How to Write Like Tolstoy
A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
For anyone who has ever identified with a hero or heroine, been seduced by a strong opening sentence, or been powerfully moved by a story’s end, How to Write Like Tolstoy is a thought-provoking journey inside the minds of the world’s most accomplished storytellers, from Shakespeare to Stephen...
Intermediate Tagalog
Learn to Speak Fluent Tagalog (Filipino), the National Language of the Philippines (Downloadable material included)
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
At last, a way to improve your Tagalog!
Written by Joi Barrios as the continuation of her best-selling Tagalog for Beginners book, Intermediate Tagalog is the first intermediate-level book designed specifically for people who already speak or understand some basic Tagalog and now wish to achieve...
Hell and Back
Reflections on Writers and Writing from Dante to Rushdie
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The author of the New York Times Notable Book Italian Neighbors shares his insights on classic and modern literature.
In this brilliant collection of essays, Tim Parks, a celebrated novelist and master of the essay form, offers a wide range of wonderfully challenging and always provocative reflections...
Literary Seductions
Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many...
by Robert P. Irvine
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Jane Austen is one of England's most enduringly popular authors, renowned for her subtle observations of the provincial middle classes of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England.
This guide to Austen's much-loved work offers:
an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations...
Packing My Library
An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries
In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France’s Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment...
A Feeling for Books
The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice...
Reading for the Plot
Design and Intention in Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life.
A History of the Book in America
Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced...
A Scream Goes Through the House
What Literature Teaches Us About Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“For too long we have been encouraged to see culture as an affair of intellect, and reading as a solitary exercise. But the truth is different: literature and art are pathways of feeling, and our encounter with them is social, inscribing us in a larger community.... Through art we discover that...
by SpeedyReads
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
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Creating Critical Classrooms
Reading and Writing with an Edge
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy—in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power...
Best Practices of Literacy Leaders
Keys to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Bringing together leading experts, this book presents the principles of effective literacy leadership and describes proven methods for improving instruction, assessment, and schoolwide professional development. The book shows how all school staff--including reading specialists and coaches, administrators,...