Literacy

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.

What makes mathematics so confusing to students?

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.

Literacy lies at the heart of student understanding and achievement.

We know that literacy is the key to learning in school, yet millions of middle and high school students lack the literacy skills they need to succeed.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

This book addresses a significant gap in the research literature on transitions across the school years: the continuities and discontinuities in school literacy education and their implications for practice.

An essential stage-specific companion to Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary and Spelling Instruction This resource presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the within word pattern stage of spelling development.

In keeping with the authors' belief that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to teachers and students alike, this volume presents a complete curriculum of word study for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development.

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population.

Today many people take reading for granted, but we remain some way off from attaining literacy for the global human population.

The authorised biography of one of the greatest storytellers of all time, written with complete and exclusive access to the archives stored in the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.

An alarmingly high number of American students continue to lack proficiency in reading, math, and science.

Now in a revised and expanded third edition, this important resource helps teachers understand how good readers comprehend text and how best to support students who are struggling.

Comprehensive and evidence-based, Structured Literacy (SL) approaches place a high value on explicit, systematic, and sequential instruction.

Packed with practical tools, this book provides K6 educators with a research-based framework for accelerating the reading and writing growth of underperforming students.

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

This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm.

This practical K12 teacher resource explains the whats, whys, and how-tos of using Questioning the Author (QtA), a powerful approach for enhancing reading comprehension and engagement.

At the turn of the millennium, Guatemala experienced a Mayan cultural renaissance often referred to as the Maya Movement.

The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework has grown from its origins in special education to being widely used to support all students, making the fully rewritten second edition of this indispensable guide more relevant than ever.

Just because a school has adopted a social and emotional learning (SEL) program does not mean it will work.

Now in a revised and updated third edition incorporating a decade of additional research and classroom experience, this book has helped over 100,000 primary-grades teachers understand and successfully apply the science of reading in phonics instruction.

Written and edited by experts in the field, this book provides a blueprint for weaving effective word study into the fabric of classrooms and schools.

Childrens socialemotional and self-regulation skills are critical for success in school and, ultimately, in the workplace.

This established text--now revised and updated--reveals how spoken language skills are acquired and how they affect children's later reading and writing achievement.

Professional learning (PL) opportunities are essential for PreK12 literacy educators, but too often these efforts fail to help teachers develop and deeply engage with their work.

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This volume presents the state of the art in terms of stylistic research and application, including EFL and ESL language classroom situations.

Listening to the voices of learners as they write an essay or try to cope with unfamiliar words in a text is a luxury often reserved for researchers.

Addressed to researchers in Applied Linguistics, and to professional teachers working in, or studying teaching and learning processes in, multilingual classrooms, Critical Reading in Language Education offers a distinctive contribution to the question of how foreign language learners can be helped to acquire effective literacy in English.

The status of 'Standard English' has featured in linguistic, educational and cultural debates over decades.

Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher education, second language motivation and psychology, this empirically-grounded analysis of teacher development in action offers new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of language teachers' conceptual change.

This book recognizes that modernist poetry can be both difficult and rewarding to teach.

This book brings together authors actively involved in shaping the field of literacy studies, presenting a robust approach to the theoretical and empirical work which is currently pushing the boundaries of literacy research and also pointing to future directions for literacy research.

The novice teacher and literacy coach need to form a team to share their expertise and continually evolve, to have opportunity for guided reflection and self-assessment of practice.

Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H.

Classicists have been slow to take advantage of the important advances in the way that literacy is viewed in other disciplines (including in particular cognitive psychology, socio-linguistics, and socio-anthropology).

In Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire, William Johnson examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome.

In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America.

In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America.

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself.

Computers, now the writer's tool of choice, are still blamed by skeptics for a variety of ills, from speeding writing up to the point of recklessness, to complicating or trivializing the writing process, to destroying the English language itself.