Literacy category: 816 books

Students love the spotlight! Improve Grade 3 students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful reading practice for performance. You'll motivate students with these easy-to-implement reader's theater scripts that also build students' knowledge through grade-level content. Book includes...

This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies,...

Learning new words is foundational to success in school and life. Researchers have known for years that how many word meanings a student knows is one of the strongest predictors of how well that student will understand text and be able to communicate through writing. This book is about how children...

Since mankind exists, we have felt the need to communicate, to express our feelings, to cultivate our imagination and we have done it through a gift that differentiates us from the rest of living beings. Writing is a vocation, born from a need of each person. It is an inner manifestation, a communicational...

Using extensive data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (Davies, 2008), this groundbreaking book shows that the syntactic patterns in which English nominalizations can be found and the range of possible readings they can express are very different from what has been claimed in past theoretical...

***`***This is a challenging book and makes for uncomfortable reading at times because one realises that there is so much more to be accomplished in education. How can the teacher who wants to follow this further find out more? Barbara MacGilchrist, Jane Reed and Kate Myers have given the next step:...

It is for the advantage of all governments to encourage writing; otherwise a nation would never be secure from the attempts of its most secret enemies. Barbarous and prejudiced criticisms on writings are detected, and criticism is justly stated. With an examination into what genius's and learning are necessary for an author in all manner of performances.

This up-close look at Chinese ESL teachers documents undertakings at formal and informal levels to support and sustain their expertise in ways that balance collaborative and competitive efforts, situated and standards-based programs, ethnically responsive and government-based efforts, and traditional...

Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design methods used by Koolhaas and his...

This fun, but very comprehensive, English course is designed for school pupils in Grades 7 to 9, for advanced ESL students, for pupils in higher grades who need more practice with basic skills, and for students who study at home. Every chapter consists of grammar, reading comprehension,...

You’ve written a great book. It deserves publication and a wide readership. But you have no idea how to find a publisher. This guide will help with the presentation of your book and the route towards an interested publisher or agent. It is important to get every step right to give your book a successful...

This fun, but very comprehensive, English course is designed for school pupils in Grades 5 to 7, for intermediate to advanced ESL students, for pupils in higher grades who need more practice with basic skills, and for students who study at home. Every chapter consists of grammar,...

Anxious about apostrophes?   In a pickle over your pronouns and prepositions?   Fear not—Mr. Gwynne is here with his wonderfully concise and highly enjoyable book of grammar.   Within these pages, adults and children alike will find all they need to rediscover this lost science and sharpen up...

This trusted teacher resource and widely adopted text presents effective ways to demystify essential reading skills and strategies for K-8 students who are struggling. It has been fully revised to focus on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts. Following a concise introduction...