Literacy category: 816 books
Interrupting Hate
Homophobia in Schools and What Literacy Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and important book focuses on the problems of heterosexism and homophobia in schools and explores how these forms of oppression impact LGBTQQ youth, as well as all young people. The author shows how concerned teachers can engage students in literacy practices both in and out of school...
Learning and Literacy over Time
Longitudinal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research—studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the trajectory of their learning lives inside and outside of school, and studies revealing how past experiences with literacy and learning inform future experiences...
by Vivian Maria Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Through stories from kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms where students and teachers have attempted to put a critical edge on their teaching, this book shows critical literacy in action across the curriculum. Readers see students and teachers together using critical literacy discourse to frame...
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy, Volume 6
Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice: A Project of the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2006
Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 6, includes chapters on:
*Demographic change and low-literacy Americans;
*The role of vocabulary in Adult Basic Education;
*Implications of research on spelling for Adult Basic Education;
*Issues in teaching...
Designing Critical Literacy Education through Critical Discourse Analysis
Pedagogical and Research Tools for Teacher-Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Uniquely bringing together discourse analysis, critical literacy, and teacher research, this book invites teacher educators, literacy researchers, and discourse analysts to consider how discourse analysis can be used to foster critical literacy education. It is both a guide for conducting critical...
Reading Work
Literacies in the New Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2004
Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It points to new questions and dilemmas to consider in planning and teaching workplace education. By taking a social perspective on literacies in the workplace,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2004
This CIERA sponsored book is based on the premise that high-quality texts of all kinds are essential to good teaching in elementary classrooms. Experts on a variety of text-related topics were asked to summarize existing research and then apply it to literacy development in an "ideal" classroom....
by Pamela Bell, Ph.D., Brian Bryant Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Prepare future educators to strengthen the literacy skills of students in Grades 6–12 with this introductory reading textbook, based on the latest research, the Common Core State Standards, and recommended instructional practices. The perfect first text on adolescent literacy, this expertly...
Literacy in Grades 4-8
Best Practices for a Comprehensive Program
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Comprehensive yet succinct and readable, Literacy in Grades 4-8, Third Edition offers a wealth of practical ideas to help preservice and practicing teachers create a balanced and comprehensive literacy program while exploring the core topics and issues of literacy in grades 4 through 8. It addresses...
Playing Their Way into Literacies
Reading, Writing, and Belonging in the Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“This book provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of new and exciting pedagogical approaches to the teaching and learning of digital literacies in the earliest years of schooling... researchers, educators, and policymakers alike ignore its key messages at their peril...
Literacy in Practice
Writing in Private, Public, and Working Lives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacies—what people do with literacy in particular social situations—has focused attention toward understanding the connections between reading and writing practices...
Literacy Practices in Transition
Perspectives from the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Literacy Practices in Transition explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals,...
by Heather McNeil
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Designed to promote literacy in young children and to empower parents, educators, and librarians, this guide is filled with simple strategies, creative activities, and detailed instructions that help make reading fun.
• Recommended book lists for promoting reading
• An overview of...
Handbook of Effective Literacy Instruction
Research-Based Practice K-8
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
This highly readable handbook synthesizes the best research on K-8 literacy instruction and distills key implications for classroom practice. Noted contributors provide clear recommendations for creating effective, motivating classroom environments; teaching core components of literacy; integrating...