Literacy category: 816 books
Views from Inside
Languages, Cultures, and Schooling for K?12 Educators
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
The goal of this text is to help teachers in diverse classrooms understand the importance of students’ culture, languages, and schooling experiences to curriculum, assessment, and student achievement. Readers will learn about aspects of specific cultures and languages that are important to their...
Managing Violence in Schools
A Whole-School Approach to Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This timely text, written by experts in research, practice and training in the field, proposes a whole-school community approach to the reduction and prevention of school violence. Underpinned by recent research findings, the book is illustrated throughout with case studies, examples of good practice...
Developing Fluent Readers
Teaching Fluency as a Foundational Skill
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Viewing fluency as a bridge between foundational skills and open-ended learning, this book guides teachers through effective instruction and assessment of fluent reading skills in the primary grades. Fluency’s relationship to phonological awareness, phonics, and print concepts is explained, and...
Preparing to Teach Writing
Research, Theory, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Preparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research, and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle, secondary, and college levels. Research and theory are examined with the aim of informing teaching. Practicing and prospective...
Considering Emotions in Critical English Language Teaching
Theories and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Groundbreaking in the ways it makes new connections among emotion, critical theory, and pedagogy, this book explores the role of students’ and teachers’ emotions in college instruction, illuminating key literacy and identity issues faced by immigrant students learning English in postsecondary...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Now in its fourth edition, the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts – sponsored by the International Literacy Association and the National Council of Teachers of English – remains at the forefront in bringing together prominent scholars, researchers, and professional leaders...
Reclaiming Powerful Literacies
New Horizons for Critical Discourse Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Offering a unique, reflexive framework for Critical Discourse Analysis focused on discourses of hope, transformation, and liberation, this book showcases a variety of powerful literacies in action. Drawing from original research in a range of public, educational spaces across the lifespan—from Kindergartners...
Engaging Writers with Multigenre Research Projects
A Teacher's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Multigenre research projects affirm students’ home cultures while developing important academic skills consistent with the Common Core State Standards in reading and writing. This book will guide teachers in assigning, scaffolding, and assessing multigenre research assignments, including how...
Social Diversity within Multiliteracies
Complexity in Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Through multiple narratives reflecting the complexity of participatory action research partnerships for social justice, this book sheds light on the dialogic spaces that intentionally support community literacies and rhetorical practices for inquiry and change. Applying literacy as social practice,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This esteemed reference work and professional resource, now substantially revised, integrates classic and cutting-edge research on how children and adolescents make meaning from text. The comprehension tasks and challenges facing students at different grade levels are explored, with attention to multiple...
Born Reading
Bringing Up Bookworms in a Digital Age -- From Picture Books to eBooks and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A program for parents and professionals on how to raise kids who love to read, featuring interviews with childhood development experts, advice from librarians, tips from authors and children’s book publishers, and reading recommendations for kids from birth up to age five.
Every parent wants...
Phonological Awareness, Second Edition
From Research to Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Translating cutting-edge research into practical recommendations for assessment and instruction, this book has helped thousands of readers understand the key role of phonological awareness in the development of reading, writing, and spelling. It clearly shows how children's knowledge about the sound...
Comprehension Instruction, Third Edition
Research-Based Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
All key issues of research and practice in comprehension instruction are addressed in this highly regarded professional resource and course text. Leading scholars examine the processes that enable students to make meaning from what they read--and how this knowledge can be applied to improve teaching...