Language Arts category: 28677 books
Identity-Focused ELA Teaching
A Curriculum Framework for Diverse Learners and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Countering the increased standardization of English language arts instruction requires recognizing and fostering students’ unique identity construction across different social and cultural contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity construction, this book posits that students...
Schooling Hip-Hop
Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies,...
The Best for Our Children
Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This watershed volume brings together the foremost leading authorities and scholars lending their individual voices to a single, urgent issue: literacy for Latino students. In a departure from traditional paradigms, Latinos examine their own lived experiences in U.S. schools and offer sound theories...
by Belona Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
You want to write a play but you have no idea how to start. This book will help you to enter the exciting world of scriptwriting step by step.
What makes a good dramatic story? How do you get inspired? What is the language of theatre? How do you create the most interesting, three-dimensional...
Explaining Reading, Third Edition
A Resource for Explicit Teaching of the Common Core Standards
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This trusted teacher resource and widely adopted text presents effective ways to demystify essential reading skills and strategies for K-8 students who are struggling. It has been fully revised to focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts. Following a concise introduction...
by Linda Aksomitis
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
This teacher's guide provides resources for students reading the award winning young adult novel, Snowmobile Challenge, and the companion nonfiction book, Snowmobile Adventures. There are questions for reading comprehension, literary analysis, writing and research activities included for both books....
by Pete-Isaac Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Write a Book (You Could Make Money … Even Plenty) was done to be the companion of all who have always wanted to author a book but have somehow not seen much value in it, or have been held down by belief that they do not have what it takes.
The primary aim is to urge the reader to write, get the...
by Andrea S. Libresco, Jeannette Balantic, Mary Battenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
With the amount of time and resources allocated to teaching social studies being significantly reduced, social studies lessons need to be incorporated into other subjects. Notable Books, Notable Lessons: Putting Social Studies Back in the K–8 Curriculum offers the tools to teach students social...
Ancient Philosophy
Textual Paths and Historical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
‘We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece’, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once wrote. It is in Greek that the questions which shaped the destiny of Western culture were asked, and so were the first attempts at an answer, and the search for...
Linking Picture Book Biographies to National Content Standards: 200+ Lives to Explore
200+ Lives to Explore
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Presenting beautifully illustrated picture book biographies, this book pairs narrative nonfiction biographies rich in language and illustrations with national content standards in the social studies, science, and the arts.
• Provides more than 100 picture book biographies (primarily from...
'Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names'
On Eastern and Western Values
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Essay from the year 2004 in the subject Communications - Intercultural Communication, grade: distinction, Charles Darwin University, language: English, abstract: The culture we are born into shapes the way we look at the world. Culture, this work claims, is man-made and tends, on the one hand, to...
Morsels of Musings
When the Muse Sings
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Morsels Of Musings is a compilation of poems on the world around us. There are poems on flowers and trees; on Celeste, Sol and stars; on love and romance, that special someone who makes life worth living: on life with its multi faceted emotions with an imploration to live and 'seize the day'. Some...
by Namrata Pathak
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
It is the very nature of representation to be theatrical and self-referential. This book undercuts the fact that all representational knowledge is autonomous and sovereign. At times, theatrical representations can misguide and mislead. Representation can also ineluctably project ones own preferences...
Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom
Being the Book and Being the Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“These inspirational findings confirm the highest values of democratic education and offer an inspiring vision of what it truly means to put students first. The authors not only describe the future of English Studies, but its best current practices and its deep historical legacy. This book is...