Literacy

This book presents cutting-edge research findings in areas critical to advancing reading research in the 21st century context, including new literacies, reading motivation, strategy instruction, and reading intervention studies.

Offering an original historical perspective on literacy work in Africa, this book examines the role of the Norwegian Lutheran mission in Madagascar and sheds light on the motivations that drove colonizing powers' literacy work.

This book shows how behavior analysis can be applied to teaching reading and writing to primary school students and to special populations, such as children with intellectual and hearing disabilities and illiterate adults.

This edited collection provides an in-depth exploration of different aspects of contemporary early childhood literacy research and the implications for educational practice.

This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking children in Western societies.

This book argues the importance of aesthetic literacies in learning and teaching in schools for future work.

This edited book presents the integration of Critical Media Literacy (CML) principles into teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL).

Living in an age of communication, literacy is an extremely integral part of our society.

Writing is a very complex process that is difficult to teach, learn, and research.

Few resources exist to give literacy teacher educators a comprehensive view of effective, innovative practices in their field, making this uniquely practical volume an important addition to the literature.

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

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 addresses issues surrounding writing centers in the Arabian Gulf region.

This invaluable resource guides readers through the process of creating scholarly, publishable prose from the results of quantitative experiments and investigations.

Based on an ethnographic study involving three families who live on a Midlands council housing estate, this book presents portraits of everyday lives - and the literacy practices that are part of them - as a way to explore the complex relationship between literacy and social justice.

The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world's population and is increasingly popular as a second language.

This book brings together the work of established scholars from around the world to celebrate and honor the many ways in which Steve Graham has contributed to the advancement of teaching and researching writing.

This book unpacks recent changes in the landscape of literature and language teaching, and aims to find new explanations for the altered relationships between readers and writers, the democratisation of authorship, and the emergence of new ways of using language.

This book documents the impact of Stephen Harris's works in Aboriginal education, Aboriginal learning styles, domains of language use and bilingual-bicultural education.

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Unlock the power of personalized reading with practical strategies and easy-to-use ideas to engage students in the digital age.

"Este libro es un ensayo sobre dos escritores centrales de la literatura peruana ycoloca en el centro de su argumentación la relación literatura-política de unamanera brillante y erudita, rastreando las posturas de ambos escritores a través dela historia e identifi cando nudos ideológicos clave, tanto de sus biografías intelectualescomo del campo intelectual peruano y latinoamericano.

Andean peoples joined the world of alphabetic literacy nearly 500 years ago, yet the history of their literacy has remained hidden until now.

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 book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for sixth 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.

The Chinese government has long kept tight control on both traditional and new media to prevent potential challenges to its authority.

This book brings together in one place David Hitchcock's most significant published articles on reasoning and argument.

The rise of New Literacy Studies and the shift from studying reading and writing as a technical process to examining situated literacies-what people do with literacy in particular social situations-has focused attention toward understanding the connections between reading and writing practices and the broader social goals and cultural practices these literacy practices help to shape.

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.

An urgent, erudite, and practical book that redefines literacy to embrace how we think and communicate nowWe live in a world that is awash in visual storytelling.

This volume examines how internationalization, stakeholders, and educational contexts have a reciprocal influence on multilinguals and their communities both as individual and collective variables.

Machine learning is concerned with the analysis of large data and multiple variables.

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum policies and strategies, so that grammar and associated metalanguage becomes an integral part of their day to day curriculum practices.

From leading authorities in both adolescent literacy and content-area teaching, this book addresses the particular challenges of literacy learning in each of the major academic disciplines.

The essays in New Media/New Methods: The Academic Turn from Literacy to Electracy pose an invention-based approach to new media studies.

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

Writing is a very complex process that is difficult to teach, learn, and research.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the teaching of academic writing and information literacy in a new digital dimension, drawing on recent trends towards project-based writing, digital writing and multimodal writing in Education, and synthesising theory with practice to provide a handy toolkit for teachers and researchers.

Writing: Texts, Processes and Practices offers an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to writing in a variety of academic and professional settings.

This book broadens the scope and impact of digital storytelling in higher education.

'As soon as I began to read, I was filled with that kind of engrossed blossoming that happens somewhere inside of you when you start a really nourishing book.

This collection of new essays addresses a topic of established and expanding critical interest throughout the humanities.

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

Adolescent Literacy in the Era of the Common Core provides school leaders, teachers, and others with strategies and best practices for advancing adolescent literacy in the classroom.