Language Arts category: 28677 books
Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival
Languaging, Tourism, Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2006
In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and languages, Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions she argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based...
Breaking Through the Language Arts Block
Organizing and Managing the Exemplary Literacy Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This innovative book helps K–6 teachers infuse the entire school day with research-based literacy best practices. Classroom-tested strategies are presented for planning and implementing each component of the "exemplary literacy day"--vocabulary and word study sessions, literacy work stations,...
African-Language Literatures
Perspectives On Isizulu Fiction And Popular Black Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which African writing developed in the past (only remotely similar to those of Western models), resulted in an inability of Eurocentric literary models to explore the hermeneutic world of African language poetics inherited from the oral and...
by Christine Dugan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Boost students' language arts vocabulary with easy-to-implement effective strategies! Sample lessons using each strategy are included for grade spans K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12 using vocabulary words from standards-based, content-specific units of study. Each strategy also includes suggestions for differentiating...
Library Robotics: Technology and English Language Arts Activities for Ages 8–24
Technology and English Language Arts Activities for Ages 8–24
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
A dive-right-in, quick-start guide for busy library professionals who want to build literacy, STEAM, and other 21st-century skills using simple robots in a fun, collaborative environment.
• Provides the only guidebook currently available about robotics written by a librarian, for librarians—a...
by Anita Louise McCormick
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Makerspaces, equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters, robotics, and other high-tech tools, are often associated with STEM programs like science, math, and technology. Educators have discovered that the learning opportunities makerspaces offer can be just as valuable in other curriculum areas as well. This volume fuses this fabulous technology with the Language Arts.
by P. H. Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins...
Choice Words!
A Crash Course in Language Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Take a crash course in middle school language arts, and see how grammar, punctuation, and writing skills can be powerful tools in todays world. Grasp grammar by creating a new dance. Make writing as easy as baking a cake. You'll soon discover that language arts are the real deal for real life.
Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium
Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of...
Researching edTPA Promises and Problems
Perspectives from English as an Additional Language, English Language Arts, and World Language Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Teacher effectiveness and licensure in the United States continue to be scrutinized at the state and national levels. At present, 40 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted edTPA to inform initial teacher licensure and/or certification decisions (American Association of Colleges for Teacher...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Using a library’s facilities to bring arts to the community is not only a valuable service, but also a wonderful marketing and outreach opportunity, a tangible way to show the public that libraries offer value, thus shoring up grassroots support. Editor Smallwood has combed the country finding examples...
English Language Arts Research and Teaching
Revisiting and Extending Arthur Applebee’s Contributions
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Taking as a starting point the most enduring insights to emerge from acclaimed researcher Arthur Applebee’s scholarship, this volume brings together leading experts to fully examine his work for its explanatory power and its potential to shape current and future research agendas. Focused on the...
by David S. Kaufer, Brian S. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic. Such arts have become increasingly prestigious in our technocratic society. Since Aristotle, the art...
by Richard Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
A Theory of Contemporary Rhetoric describes, explains, and argues the overarching theory of contemporary rhetoric. This current view of rhetoric brings together themes in the communication arts, including political literary criticism; bi- and multi-lingualism; multimodality; framing as an artistic...