Literacy learning continues to be central to schooling, and is currently of major concern to educators, policy developers, and members of the public alike.
"e;Like a series of productive meetings with a trusted advisor, each chapter of this text provides practical information and sound insight, thoughtfully organized and generously shared.
From Small Places: Toward the Realization of Literacy as a Human Right brings together history, theory, research, and practices that can lead to the realization of this right, both in itself, and as a means of achieving other rights.
Written in a tradition that encourages teachers to see classrooms as laboratories and themselves as artists, intellectuals and researchers, Teaching Writing While Standing on One Foot is a compelling work that will enthrall readers as well as give them knowledge, hope, and inspiration.
Scientific literacy is approached on the premise that language is key to understand the nature of both learning and participation, in scientists' practices as well as in liberal education for citizenship.
Every storyteller soon discovers the difference between putting a story inside children and trying to extract it with comprehension questions and putting children inside a story and having them act it out.
This book addresses (and aims to dismantle) writer woundedness, a state of being that prevents students from trusting themselves as capable of writing something they can feel good about.
The message of the book is straightforward and easy to apply: it derives from the interweaving of long years of field work with a solid theoretical background.
"e;This book addresses the issue of preadolescent boys literacy practices and the social construction of their identities as they navigate multiple classroom literacies.
Cartographies of Becoming in Education: A Deleuze-Guattari Perspective proposes a non-hierarchical approach that maps teaching and learning with the power of affect and what a body can do/become in different educational contexts.
Young Adult literature, from The Outsiders to Harry Potter, has helped shape the cultural landscape for adolescents perhaps more than any other form of consumable media in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Help kids ages 6 to 9 discover the life of Amelia Earhart-a story about daring to be differentAmelia Earhart became the first woman pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean in an airplane-and she broke many other flight records before her mysterious disappearance.
This edited volume offers a cohesive account of recent developments across the world in the field of learner and teacher autonomy in languages education.
"e;The books strength lies in the ability of the contributors to draw conclusions in relation to the reading debate and constructively justify moving away from the reliance on a single phonics approach based on evidence from empirical research.
Esta obra pretende modificar la ideas tradicionales sobre la comprensión lectora y, por tanto, redefine los roles de los docentes y del alumnado, así como los recursos y estrategias para la enseñanza de la lectura.
Un libro sumamente claro, sencillo y muy bien estructurado que explica detalladamente, y con un enfoque profundamente humanista, todos las etapas evolutivas del desarrollo de la personalidad, desde el periodo prenatal y el nacimiento hasta la adolescencia.
La danza del tiempo es un álbum lleno de imaginación y también de información, que resultará útil para padres y profesores que quieran adentrarse con los niños en un viaje diferente a través del sistema solar.
Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about life in the Stone Age with this fun-filled non-fiction reader carefully levelled to help children progress.
The Elements of Style William Strunk - The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions, originally composed by William Strunk Jr.
