Literacy

Comprehensive, up to date, and highly practical, this volume discusses factors that affect struggling readers in grades 7-12 and provides research-based strategies for improving their reading and writing skills.

During a time of increased book banning and censoring, of scrutiny of the word critical, andeven calls for surveillance of K12 teachers, the burgeoning field of critical media literacy is moreimportant than ever.

This book describes a new approach to teaching foreign languages for primary and secondary school that shifts the attention from learning the language to communicate skillfully in the foreign language.

This book explores the impact of the Lesson Books of the National Board of Education in Ireland in the nineteenth century.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for fifth 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.

Family Literacies demonstrates, through reference to empirical research, how shared reading practices operate in a wide range of families, with a view to supporting families in reading with their pre-school children.

In this concise, thought-provoking book, prominent researchers analyze existing knowledge on adolescent literacy, examine the implications for classroom instruction, and offer specific goals for future research.

Describing effective, creative strategies for talking with students in ways that enhance literacy learning, this book offers a window into the classrooms of four exemplary teachers.

Writing Using Sources for Academic Purposes: Theory, Research and Practice provides research-based information about key components of source-based writing, and the challenges it presents for novices.

Violin exercises for the left hand.

Today we are endlessly connected: constantly tweeting, texting or e-mailing.

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

Workshopping the Canon for Democracy and Justiceadopts and adapts foundational reading and writing workshop structures for democratic and justice teaching in the context of the middle and secondary classroom and curriculum.

This book examines the agreements and discrepancies between public understanding and assumptions about refugees, and the actual beliefs and practices among the refugees themselves in a time of increasing mobility fuelled by what many call 'refugee crisis'.

This collection, edited by Joseph O.

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India.

English teacher Brent Peters and history teacher Joe Franzen show readers how food literacy works in the English classroom, beyond the English classroom, and beyond the school day.

This essential book provides a roadmap for instruction and assessment of close reading skills in grades 3-8.

This volume assesses the critical intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and literacy education.

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.

Illustrates the widespread applications of the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing, especially the eight habits of mind, in helping students to be successful not only in postsecondary writing courses but also in four arenas of life: academic, professional, civic, and personal.

Librarians can stay relevant in the twenty-first century when they build on those areas where they have excelled.

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 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.

Between about 1830 and the outbreak of the First World War, print culture, reading, and writing transformed cultural life in Western Europe in many significant ways.

This volume offers an updated analysis of the methodology of reading and reading research since 1995, when the landmark book Verbal Protocols of Reading: The Nature of Constructively Responsive Reading by Michael Pressley and Peter Afflerbach was published.

Writer Identity and the Teaching and Learning of Writing is a groundbreaking book which addresses what it really means to identify as a writer in educational contexts and the implications for writing pedagogy.

Elijah Muhammad and the Supreme of Literacy explores how Elijah Muhammad framed the term literacy as contrasted with its generally known definitions and applications.

Reading for pleasure urgently requires a higher profile to raise attainment and increase children's engagement as self-motivated and socially interactive readers.

William Frawley University of Delaware Several years ago, I performed a kind of perverse experiment.

This book focuses on the literacy beliefs and practices of parents and children from Asian and Latinx heritage backgrounds.

Corpus Linguistics for Writing Development provides a practical introduction to using corpora in the study of first and second language learners' written language over time and across different levels of proficiency.

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

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

Topical Themes in Argumentation Theory brings together twenty exploratory studies on important subjects of research in contemporary argumentation theory.

This is a comprehensive study of the origins and early uses of Russian writing.

Literacy is an individual's ability to read and write.

This book presents exemplars of multilingualism in TESOL worldwide.

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.

Offering a comparative analysis of "e;community-literacy studies,"e; Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics traces common values in diverse accounts of "e;ordinary people going public.

This book argues for dynamic and relevant school experiences for primary and early secondary learners that embed digital media production.

The book is dedicated to the blessed memory of Prof.

Brumas sombre el volcán nos ofrece siete historias para ocho islas unidas por un común denominador: el cuerpo mágico y mestizo del archipiélago de las islas Canarias, lugar en el que la vida de nuestros protagonistas encuentra su razón de ser, bien sea como punto de partida, desarrollo o lugar de destino.

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching practitioners, students, and researchers.

Thousands of children's books are published each year-some are outstanding, while others are not.

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.

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.