Literacy

The book pursues the goal of exploring and strengthening a dialogical approach of communication and cognition.

The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections.

Summarizing current research and weaving it into practical instructional strategies that teachers can immediately use with young English language learners (ELLs), this book addresses a major priority for today's primary-grade classrooms.

Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom is concerned with the nature of talk in multilingual classrooms.

This edited volume brings together ongoing professional conversations about diverse childrens books and the role and function of nonfiction and informational text in K8 classrooms.

This book sheds light on the array of transformative literacies in the Global South, which English language teachers and educators seek to integrate within their pedagogical practices.

This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class.

Shortlisted for the United Kingdom Literary Association (UKLA) Academic Book Award 2023A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers generates imaginative encounters with poetry and invites educators to practice a range of poetry exercises in order to inform instructional approaches to reading and writing.

This book shows connections between oral story listening and unique, enduring educational effects in and outside of the classroom.

This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes a synthesis of research findings relating to reading in the non-Roman alphabet.

Elementary teachers of reading have one essential goalto prepare diverse children to be independent, strategic readers in real life.

Undoing the Digital challenges common ways of understanding digital technology and its relationships to literacy and literacy education.

This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction.

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the perspective of the Global South.

This volume explores both historical and current issues in English usage guides or style manuals.

This book examines global perspectives of health literacy development to explore the intersections between health, education, and community settings.

Based on the Adult Literacy and Life Skills survey conducted in Bermuda, Canada, Italy, Mexico (Nuevo Leon), Norway, and the United States of America in 2003 and 2004, this book presents an initial set of findings that shed new light on the twin processes of skill gain and loss.

This concise but information-packed text helps high school students in upper grade levels and lower division college and university students quickly master the basics of information literacy.

This book is a comprehensive introduction to translation studies between English and isiZulu.

This volume focuses on our understanding of the reading comprehension of adolescents in a high stakes academic environment.

This edited book focuses on affordances and limitations of e-books for early language and literacy, features and design of e-books for early language and literacy, print versus e-books in early language and literacy development, and uses of and guidelines for how to use e-books in school and home literacy practices.

Successful students use comprehension skills and strategies throughout the school day.

This book has been replaced by Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, Sixth Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-3677-1.

This book explains how and why information literacy can help to foster critical thinking and discerning attitudes, enabling citizens to play an informed role in society and its democratic processes.

Presenting cutting-edge studies from various countries into the theoretical and practical issues surrounding the literacy acquisition of at-risk children, this volume focuses specifically on the utility of technology in supporting and advancing literacy among the relevant populations.

This book asks researchers what uncertainty means for literacy research, and for how literacy plays through uncertain lives.

How and what should young children be taught?

Following up his 10 Books That Screwed Up the World, author Benjamin Wiker brings you 10 Books Every Conservative Must Read: Plus Four Not to Miss and One Impostor.

Educators increasingly recognize the importance of disciplinary literacy for student success, beginning as early as the primary grades.

This book explores Guided Inquiry Design(R), a simple, practical model that addresses all areas of inquiry-based learning and sets the foundation for elementary-age students to learn more deeply.

This book explores the notion of software literacy, a key part of digital literacy which all contemporary students and citizens need to understand.

Concern about children's reading is an international issue highlighted by continuing OECD research.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for third grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts.

Do more than just teach students to follow grammar rules.

This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "e;social actions"e; that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers.

This book provides guidance for improving primary classroom reading instruction.

Fake news and misinformation is everywhere.

The almost universal reliance upon digitaltools for social, academic, and career development will only become morepronounced in the years to come.

In this third, fully revised edition, the 10 volume Encyclopedia of Language and Education offers the newest developments, including an entirely new volume of research and scholarly content, essential to the field of language teaching and learning in the age of globalization.

This volume highlights the shortcomings concerning literacy development in Africa and collates the current available literature based on empirical research in various countries in a coherent manner.

This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience.

This book serves as a succinct resource on the cognitive requirements of reading.

The Educational Media and Technology Yearbook has become a standard reference in many libraries and professional collections.

Comprehensive, authoritative, and designed for practical utility, this handbook presents evidence-based approaches for helping struggling readers and those at risk for literacy difficulties or delays.