Literacy

This volume examines the relationship between language and literacy from a systemic functional perspective.

This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings.

Explores the process of word selection in second language use and the factors which determine the writer''s choice of words.

This book provides two conceptual frameworks for further investigation of map literacy and fills in a gap in map literacy studies, addressing the distinction between reference maps and thematic maps and the varying uses of quantitative map literacy (QML) within and between the two.

This practical book provides explicit instructions for teaching sentence-level skills to students who have difficulties in this area.

Focusing specifically on Interactional Ethnography (IE) as a distinct, discourse-based form of ethnography, this book introduces readers to the logic and practice behind IE and exemplifies the logic of ethnographic inquiry through a range of example-based chapters.

This book argues for the importance of literature studies using the historical debate between the disinterested disciplines ("e;art for art's sake"e;) and utilitarian or productive disciplines.

Widely regarded as the standard reference in the field, this comprehensive handbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about the nature and classification of learning disabilities (LD), their causes, and how individuals with these difficulties can be identified and helped to succeed.

This highly practical resource for K6 teachers is packed with 25 classroom-tested, step-by-step strategies for developing word knowledge.

By the co-author of Language Online, this book builds on the earlier work while focusing on multilingualism in the digital world.

Grounded in research and practical expertise, this volume helps K6 teachers skillfully support all of their English language learners (ELLs)from a single student to an entire classroom.

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing.

Making sure that all students read well is a top priority for schools, and literacy coaches are playing an increasingly important role in the effort.

The definitive reference on literacy research methods, this book serves as a key resource for researchers and as a text in graduate-level courses.

Walking in Shakespeares Shoesproposes and explores a practical, historical, and culturally-relevant approach to teaching Shakespeare, situating the plays and sonnets in a tumultuous early modern world.

This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language.

This book proposes to expand multiliteracies frameworks in second language education, by recognizing that learning a new language and culture involves both designs and desires, the affects and emotions that feed our responses to particular ways of making meaning.

Explicit instruction is systematic, direct, engaging, and success oriented--and has been shown to promote achievement for all students.

This book is an exposition of a curriculum innovation within the complex yet fertile ground of school-based education in Singapore.

Reading and writing instruction require individuals--both students and teachers--to flexibly process many kinds of information, from a variety of sources.

This volume explores the value of using queer pedagogy in an interdisciplinary middle school classroom to promote a better understanding of social justice and the social construction of knowledge among students.

Literacy lies at the heart of student understanding and achievement.

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge.

In considering the ways in which current theories of language in use and communicative processes are applied to the analysis, interpretation and definition of literary texts, this book sets an agenda for the future of pragmatic literary stylistics and provides a foundation for future research and debate.

This trusted practitioner guide and course text helps K-8 teachers utilize assessment as an integral component of classroom instruction.

Communicating ideas and information is what makes writing meaningfulyet many upper elementary and middle school students write in a vacuum, without considering the aims of their writing or the needs of their readers.

You've heard of the Great Books?

For several reasons, mostly inherent to the different developments of generative grammar, an increasing number of publications have dealt with reduplication in the past 20 years.

This book draws on contemporary theory and recent findings to provide researchers, professionals, undergraduate and graduate students with essential resources, allowing them to better understand and support children, youth and adults with autism and significant communication impairments.

,A ground-breaking book.

The editors and contributors to this collection explore what it means to adopt an "e;academic literacies"e; approach in policy and pedagogy.

What does literacy mean in the 21st century?

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress.

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean.

Mirroring worldwide debates on social class, literacy rates, and social change, this study explores the intersection between reading and social class in Singapore, one of the top scorers on the Programme for International Assessment (PISA) tests, and questions the rhetoric of social change that does not take into account local spaces and practices.

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality literature within a classroom context that exercises the imagination and generates new ideas and discoveries.

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses several imbalances in scholarship on reading and textual activity in the ancient Mediterranean.

This book details the findings of a research project investigating the social uses of literacy in a range of contexts in South Africa.

Moving beyond current theories on literacy practices, this edited collection sheds new light on the complexities inherent to the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which literacy practices are realized.

Synthesizing the best current knowledge about early literacy, this comprehensive handbook brings together leading researchers from multiple disciplines.