Language Arts category: 28677 books
10 Common Core Essentials: Nonfiction
Selections from New and Classic Books for the English Language Arts Standards for Middle and High School
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The excerpts featured in this free sampler come from some of our most popular nonfiction books for middle and high school classrooms—making them ideal choices to meet the new Common Core Standards for the English Language Arts. From the primary documents of The American Reader to The Boy Who Harnessed...
Logos without Rhetoric
The Arts of Language before Plato
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
How did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called “rhetoric”? Must art have a name to be considered art? What is the difference between eloquence and rhetoric? And what were the differences among poets, philosophers, sophists, and rhetoricians before Plato emphasized—or perhaps invented—their...
by Fiona Sampson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2004
This book is really a must-have for therapists and others in the creative arts, so that you can see how the workings of the human mind can be displayed through the arts. Even with serious illness, the mind can talk. And that is the point of the book'.
- Metapsychology Online Book Reviews
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by George E. Newell, David Bloome, Alan Hirvela
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Focused on the teaching and learning argumentative writing in grades 9-12, this important contribution to literacy education research and classroom practice offers a new perspective, a set of principled practices, and case studies of excellent teaching. The case studies illustrate teaching and learning...
Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II
A Project of the International Reading Association
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts, Volume II brings together state-of-the-art research and practice on the evolving view of literacy as encompassing not only reading, writing, speaking, and listening, but also the multiple ways through which learners...
New Creativity Paradigms
Arts Learning in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, this book explores research indicating that youth are learning new ways to engage in the arts on their own time and according to their own interests. Digital technologies, such as production tools and social media, allow youth to create and share their art....
by Martha Smith, Liz Knowles Ed.D.
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Despite the fact that reading and literacy among boys has been an area of concern for years, this issue remains unresolved today. Additionally, the emphasis and focus have changed due to the implementation of the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. How can educators best encourage male students...
Newsworthy
Cultivating Critical Thinkers, Readers, and Writers in Language Arts Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this book, Ed Madison—journalist, producer/director, and innovative educator—provides specific strategies to help teachers use journalistic learning to achieve positive outcomes that engage students in new ways. Journalistic learning is a teaching approach that borrows techniques from...
Building Students' Historical Literacies
Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
How can teachers incorporate the richness of historical resources into classrooms in ways that are true to the discipline of history and are pedagogically sound? This book explores the notion of historical literacy, adopts a research-supported stance on literacy processes, and promotes the integration...
Envisioning Knowledge
Building Literacy in the Academic Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This updated text argues that literature fosters ways of thinking that go far beyond understanding the conventions of genre and text. It involves literate thinking that takes students beyond improved performance on high-stakes tests and prepares them for their future in the 21st century. This revision...
Children, Language, and Literacy
Diverse Learners in Diverse Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning sociocultural diversity, many early childhood classrooms (pre-K to grade 2) offer a one-size-fits-all curriculum in which...
The Semiotics of Light and Shadows
Modern Visual Arts and Weimar Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Lighting and shadows are used within a range of art forms to create aesthetic effects. Piotr Sadowski's study of light and shadow in Weimar cinema and contemporaneous visual arts is underpinned by the evolutionary semiotic theories of indexicality and iconicity. These theories explain the unique communicative...
Language in the Schools
Integrating Linguistic Knowledge Into K-12 Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language in the Schools: Integrating Linguistic Knowledge Into K-12 Teaching addresses two important questions:
*What aspects of linguistic knowledge are most useful for teachers to know?
*What kinds of activities and projects are most effective in introducing those aspects of linguistic knowledge...
Teaching Chinese as an International Language
A Singapore Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Bilingual and bicultural scholar Yeng-Seng Goh offers the first in-depth English language analysis of global Chinese, exploring the spread of Chinese beyond China and its emergence as a global language. Approaching the topic from a Singapore perspective, Goh uses this fascinating language ecosystem,...