Literacy

The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively impacted classroom teaching and learning.

Understanding Digital Literacies Second Edition provides an accessible and timely introduction to new media literacies.

A probing and prescient consideration of writing as an instrument of punishment Writing tends to be characterized as a positive aspect of literacy that helps us to express our thoughts, to foster interpersonal communication, and to archive ideas.

This book examines the powerful role of writing in society.

This book brings together some of the worlds foremost literacy scholars to discuss how research influences what teachers actually do in the classroom.

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Adopting a 'social practice' approach to literacy research based on ethnographic methods, this book provides a strong critique of dominant understandings of the role of literacy in the lives of adults in Australia.

This book is an annual publication entering its 40th year.

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Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents' everyday lives and experiences.

This workbook accompanies the three easier books in Dark Man Set One: The Dark Fire of Doom, Destiny in the Dark and The Dark Never Hides.

The teaching of the grammar of a second/foreign language has always been an issue that different teaching methods have considered.

This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers--even those who appear to have given up--and fostering their success.

Elementary teachers, often with their students for most or all of the day, have the opportunity to creatively integrate instruction across classes.

This book presents a participatory action research study exploring the social identity and academic literacies of bilingual preservice teachers.

Building crucial bridges between theory, research, and practice, this volume brings together leading authorities on the literacy development of young children.

This established text and teacher resource is now in a revised and updated third edition, with a broader focus on whole-class instruction as well as small-group and individualized intervention.

This book reports on a research program designed to construct the basics of a new type of literacy that teaches pupils social problem-solving at individual and collective levels.

By focusing on the textually mediated reactions of local residents, social movements, and media producers to policy changes implemented in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, this book studies the development of literacy as a tool to mobilize, perform, and disseminate protest.

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 unique book examines how children learn to read across seventeen languages and their orthographies.

Each of the sixty reproducible classroom-ready activities has general guidelines that describe the purposes for the project, how to use it, evaluation points, and variations that increase student participation and motivation, and a variety of assessment activities.

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

This volume promotes a thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of language and literacy based on first hand experiences and research.

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.

ste libro separa los hechos de la ficción y analiza detalladamente empresas de alto crecimiento en algunos países en vías de desarrollo para construir un argumento convincente en cuanto a que no es recomendable desarrollar políticas públicas que pretendan escoger posibles empresas 'ganadoras'.

The Academic Vocabulary Practice for fifth grade offers teachers 128-pages of practical ways to help students master essential academic vocabulary.

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.

A practical and innovative guide to emphasizing literacies development when teaching world languagesLiteracies in Language Education introduces multiliteracies pedagogy, which focuses on critical engagement with texts, intercultural understanding, and language proficiency development.

This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication.

This book proposes a broad-based multiliteracies theory and praxis for college writing curriculum.

This volume promotes a thought-provoking discussion on contemporary issues surrounding the teaching of language and literacy based on first hand experiences and research.

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

Second Language Writing in Elementary Classrooms focuses on L2 writing in elementary classrooms.

This volume foregrounds the disciplinary literacy approach to college teaching and learning with in-depth discussions of theory and research, as well as extensive classroom illustrations.

Peer support and social relationships have a tremendous influence on development, motivation, and achievement for all students, including struggling learners and those with disabilities.

This volume presents a selection of papers reflecting key theoretical issues in argumentation theory.

This book discusses learning and teaching with modern technology in the new knowledge society.

Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference challenges the Eurocentric perspective from which the field of rhetoric is traditionally viewed.

The digital revolution has greatly influenced communication, meaning a current, analytical examination of changing literacy skills is needed.

Ted Kesler, with a community of grade school teachers and students, demonstrates how students creative responses lead to deep comprehension of diverse texts and ultimately help them to develop their literate identities.

This book explores the role that librarians play within schools as literacy leaders.

This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 - 2011 at Penn State University's Dickinson School of Law.

The book describes how the three East Asian writing systems-Chinese, Korean, and Japanese- originated, developed, and are used today.

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.