Literacy category: 816 books
by Patricia F. Vadasy, PhD, J. Ron Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Addressing a key skill in reading, writing, and speaking, this comprehensive book is grounded in cutting-edge research on vocabulary development. It presents evidence-based instructional approaches for at-risk students, including English language learners and those with learning difficulties. Coverage...
Language Acquisition
The Age Factor
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2004
This book examines the evidence relative to the idea that there is an age factor in first and second language acquisition, evidence that has sources ranging from studies of feral children to evaluations of language programmes in primary schools. It goes on to explore the various explanations that...
The Meaning of Tingo
and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Did you know that in Hungary, pigs go rof-rof-rof, but in Japan they go boo boo boo? That there’s apparently the need in Bolivia for a word that means "I was rather too drunk last night but it was all their fault"? Adam Jacot de Boinod's book on extraordinary words from around the world...
Reading Instruction for Diverse Classrooms
Research-Based, Culturally Responsive Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
This practical, teacher-friendly book provides indispensable guidance for implementing research-based reading instruction that is responsive to students' diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Structured around the “big five” core topics of an effective reading program—phonemic awareness,...
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...
Teaching Comics Through Multiple Lenses
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Building off the argument that comics succeed as literature—rich, complex narratives filled with compelling characters interrogating the thought-provoking issues of our time—this book argues that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature,...
Critical Encounters in Secondary English
Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Because of the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, literature teachers all over the country are re-evaluating their curriculum and looking for thoughtful ways to incorporate nonfiction into their courses. They are also rethinking their pedagogy...
by Richard Beach, Faythe Beauchemin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-based...
Identity-Focused ELA Teaching
A Curriculum Framework for Diverse Learners and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Countering the increased standardization of English language arts instruction requires recognizing and fostering students’ unique identity construction across different social and cultural contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity construction, this book posits that students...
by Nam Nguyen
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
The Essential World 4500 Famous Quotes is a great resource anywhere you go. The eBook is guaranteed to be an excellent resource for success. These famous quotes are allowing us to use the wisdom of the best minds in history to gain insight around the world. I believe that all of us love quotes...
Early Career English Teachers in Action
Learning from Experience, Developing Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
The first few years of teaching are critical to the professional development of effective English teachers. In these crucial years, new teachers establish their identities, learn the ins and outs of the curriculum, acclimate to unfamiliar communities, and cope with student behaviors that they never...
Language, Culture, and Teaching
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic...
Language and Power in Post-Colonial Schooling
Ideologies in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient, this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics and approaches to language in education. Carolyn McKinney uses the lens of linguistic ideologies—teachers’ and...
Translanguaging with Multilingual Students
Learning from Classroom Moments
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings...