Literacy category: 816 books
by Alan Rogers, Brian Street
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In Adult Literacy and Development: Stories from the Field, Alan Rogers and Brian Street draw upon their extensive experience in adult literacy promotion in many different countries of the developing world and the West, and on the work of many others (both researchers and practitioners) to try to understand...
by Roni Jo Draper, Paul Broomhead, Amy Peterson Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Today’s teachers need to prepare students for a world that places increasingly higher literacy demands on its citizens. In this timely book, the authors explore content-area literacy and instruction in English, music, science, mathematics, social studies, visual arts, technology, and theatre....
Producing Good Citizens
Literacy Training in Anxious Times
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2014
Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon,...
by Jill E. Tatz, M.A., Leanora Carpio-Mariano
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
What are today's best methods for teaching literacy skills to students with complex support needs—including autism, intellectual disability, and multiple disabilities? This comprehensive guidebook has up-to-date, evidence-based answers for pre- and in-service educators.
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American Sign Language and Early Literacy
A Model Parent-Child Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2012
The usual definition of the term “literacy” generally corresponds with mastering the reading and writing of a spoken language. This narrow scope often engenders unsubstantiated claims that print literacy alone leads to, among other so-called higher-order thinking skills, logical and rational thinking...
Evaluating Literacy Instruction
Principles and Promising Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This must-read book for all literacy educators illuminates the intersection of research on literacy instruction and teacher evaluation. Since 2009, 46 states have changed or revised policies related to evaluating teachers and school leaders. In order for these new policies to be used to support and...
Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas
Enhancing Knowledge in the Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
The Fourth Edition of Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas: Enhancing Knowledge in the Disciplines provides readers with the knowledge, motivation, tools, and confidence for integrating literacy in their disciplinary classrooms. Offering an original, literature-based approach to teaching disciplinary...
Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons
New Studies on Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many commonly held ideas about literacy. The book speaks to central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and...
Literacy and Education
Policy, Practice and Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Literacy is a perennial ‘hot topic’ in Britain and other English-speaking countries. Concerns about falling standards and a ‘literacy crisis’ are frequently raised. In response, governments initiate new policies and teaching guidelines. This book addresses the current policies, practices...
by Denise Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In today’s high-stakes testing environment, integrating technology into the curriculum is often seen as something “extra” or for use with a few special projects. With the growth in Internet use by even the youngest children, educators urgently need a practical introduction to online...
Literacy Playshop
New Literacies, Popular Media, and Play in the Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Building on her award-winning research (featured in Playing Their Way into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has developed a curricular framework for children ages 3 to 8. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages children in creating their own multimedia productions,...
Secret Habits
Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Literacy historians have credited the Protestant mandate to read scripture, as well as Protestant schools, for advances in American literacy. This belief, however, has overshadowed other important efforts and led to an incomplete understanding of our literacy history. In Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy...
Literacy and Development
Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Literacy and Development is a collection of case studies of literacy projects around the world.
The contributors present their in-depth studies of everyday uses and meanings of literacy and of the literacy programmes that have been developed to enhance them. Arguing that ethnographic research can...
by Evan Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
In recent years, a number of books in the field of literacy research have addressed the experiences of literacy users or the multiple processes of learning literacy skills in a rapidly changing technological environment. In contrast to these studies, this book addresses the subjects of literacy. In...