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Critical Literacy Pedagogy for Bilingual Preservice Teachers
Exploring Social Identity and Academic Literacies
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book presents a participatory action research study exploring the social identity and academic literacies of bilingual preservice teachers. It describes the transformative experiences of undergraduate students during their participation in a program specially designed to develop bilingual teachers...
Handbook of Arabic Literacy
Insights and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing in Arabic. Its particular focus is on the interplay between the linguistic and orthographic structure of Arabic and the development of reading and writing/spelling. In addition, the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
William Frawley University of Delaware Several years ago, I performed a kind of perverse experiment. I showed, to several linguistic colleagues, the following comment made by Walker Percy (in The Message in the Bottle): language is too important a problem to be left only to linguists. The linguists'...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
This is one of two volumes by the same editors that explore historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives on literacy in China. This volume focuses on Chinese literacy, while the other volume is on English literacy. Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the country has witnessed...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region. Including a foreword by Professor Ken Hyland, it brings together a number of thought-provoking chapters on the history, concept, and ground realities coupled with critical comparative discussions of writing centres...
Literacy and the Bilingual Learner
Texts and Practices in London Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of vignettes and case studies of learners and their educational experiences.
by Donna Uchida, Marvin Cetron, Floretta McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1996
The third millennium is approaching—are your students ready? Answer this question with a resounding "Yes!" Preparing Students for the 21st Century will bring you insight from a panel of more than 50 leaders in education, business, and government on what students need NOW to lead successful, fulfilling lives in the future.
Answering the Call to Teach
A Novel Approach to Exceptional Classroom Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Answering the Call to Teach: A Novel Approach to Effective Classroom Instruction makes the case that effective teaching begins with people who have a sincere calling to teach. The book discusses how children respond more creatively to teachers who have a calling. These teachers are more passionate,...
Planning for the Early Years: The Local Community
How to plan learning opportunities that engage and interest children
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This title is part of a brand new series which takes a fresh approach to planning by ensuring that children's interests are at the heart of all plans. Planning for the Early Years: The Local Community is packed with adaptable ideas that can be extended for older children, or more focussed for the under...
Designing Socially Just Learning Communities
Critical Literacy Education across the Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Demonstrating the power and potential of educators working together to use literacy practices that make changes in people's lives, this collaboratively written book blends the voices of participants in a teacher-led professional development group to provide a truly lifespan perspective on designing...
Change Is Gonna Come
Transforming Literacy Education for African American Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In Change Is Gonna Come, the authors look back to go forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy...
Imagery and Text
A Dual Coding Theory of Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition’s unified theory of cognition in literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and empirically sound theories of cognition ever developed. This theory provides a comprehensive, systematic account...
Reading Smart, 2nd Edition
Simple Strategies for Improved Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
SIMPLE STRATEGIES CAN MAKE YOU A BETTER READER.
Being “good at reading” isn’t just about speed—it’s about being able to read through info, quickly sort out what’s important, and draw useful connections. That’s why we at The Princeton Review created Reading Smart, a book designed...
The Lazy Teacher's Handbook - New Edition
How your students learn more when you teach less
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
It’s more than six years since the bestselling Lazy Teacher’s Handbook was first published and Jim Smith’s Lazy Teaching philosophy has developed significantly in that time. This new revised edition details Jim’s latest thinking on how to be the best lazy, but outstanding, teacher you can...