Literacy Books

This book tells about an exemplary high school Chinese language arts teacher's effort in nurturing life-long readers and writers under the test-driven culture in China's society.

Science is often a forgotten subject in early elementary grades as various mandates require teachers to focus on teaching young students to achieve specific reading and mathematical competencies. This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence...

Clearly explaining writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) pedagogy for English language teachers in university settings, this book offers an accessible guide to integrating writing and speaking tasks across the curriculum and in disciplinary courses...

Media Literacy Education in Action brings together the field's leading scholars and advocates to present a snapshot of the theoretical and conceptual development of media literacy education-what has influenced it, current trends, and ideas about its...

"I gained more confidence. And had fun in the process." - Reviewer / "I was surprised by how much I love writing. Yes. Love." - Reviewer / "This process helped me remove some of the friction that prevented me from reaching a flow...

The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world's population and is increasingly popular as a second language. Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years comprehensively investigates the psychology, pedagogy and practice involved in teaching...

Teaching grammar can be overwhelming and is often an overlooked part of effective instruction, especially for young learners. The Early Elementary Grammar Toolkit to the rescue! This comprehensive guide makes grammar instruction in the K-2 classroom fun...

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of theoretical issues, historical developments and current trends in ICALL (Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning). It assumes a basic familiarity with Second Language Acquisition (SLA)...

Reading picture books with infants and toddlers facilitates their early language development, with far-reaching benefits for their later reading abilities and academic achievement.While the importance of reading books with children aged from 3 to 5 years...

The ILTS 201 Middle Grades Language Arts book aligns with the information needed for the recent exam, ensuring comprehensive coverage of the actual exam content. The new ILTS 201 Middle Grades Language Arts test questions support your exam preparation...

Innovative and engaging, From the Garden Club explores how older women in a rural town use literacy to shape their lives and community. Deftly weaving elements of memoir with scholarly theory, Charlotte Hogg describes the lives of her grandmother and...

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international scholars themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/or...

The book is based on the author's experiences working with adult learners as an undergraduate student progressing to teaching a Literacy Training course for graduate and under- graduate students, (a grant funded course) as a professor at...

Ушбу монографияда параллел корпуснинг умумий хусусиятларини тавсифлаш, корпуснинг бошқа турларидан фарқ қилувчи томонларини очиб бериш; параллел корпуснинг хорижий тил лингводидактикаси, лингвистик ва таржима соҳасидаги афзалликларини кўрсатиб бериш;...

Internal migration serves as one of the key contributing factors to population change involving not only change in the numbers of people, but also a change in composition and structure of local populations. Technologies for Migration and Population...

Rediscover the Timeless Power of the Written WordIn an era dominated by screens and instantaneous messaging, there's a profoundly evocative art form quietly waiting to be rediscovered: handwriting. The Pen's Renaissance: Reviving the Lost Art of...

Support your child's education with an integrated Language Arts Curriculum for 7th and 8th graders (Ages 12-14). This comprehensive textbook combines spelling, writing, and reading into one experience, offering lessons and engaging activities. Key...

Mythology gives shape to experience and provides a framework in which to locate oneself. However, women, in classical mythology, were either denied a representation and, thus, a history and genealogy, or they were portrayed ambiguously, making it...

Virginia Woolf's works and extraordinary figure not only made her known and respected as one of the leading Modernists of her time, but she also proved to be an exciting challenge for Postmodern literature and art. Reinterpretations and adaptations of...

The present research paper may be an excellent guide for those readers who are interested in John Fowles' outstanding narrative techniques and unique view of life. His well-known book The Collector brings together two totally different world-views and...

As an educator with many years of experience in directing English as a Second Language (ESL) and cross-cultural programs, Kathleen Gripman spotted a troubling gap in the educational preparation of many students. Learning the essentials of American...

Get your brains into gear with this collection of BOREDOM BUSTERS.Children will love working through these fabulous colouring and puzzle activities. With an appealing layout ready for instant engagement, each page is designed to provide absorbing...

This is a support program for years 1 - 6  and has been developed for the busy relief teacher whose passion it is to deliver exceptional teaching practices each day by covering the daily curriculum in literacy and numeracy across any primary school...

This volume offers a range of responses to the problem of "disposable assignments," essays written just for a grade and then thrown away. The scholars collected here explore how renewable assignments can contribute to public knowledge, eliciting student...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 18.2 (Spring 2024) | The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work outside mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood...

The Twiza Project emerged as a collaborative effort among faculty in North America, North Africa, and the Middle East. The project attempts to speak back to the sectarian divisions, often coupled with polarized debate, that have radicalized a politics...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 13.1 (Fall 2018) | The journal understands “community literacy” as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult...

Teacher leadership is a critical component of effective curriculum assessment and professional development. With teacher-led inquiry being utilized, schools can better improve their learning programs. Literacy Program Evaluation and Development...

This book contains a variety of letters aimed at partners/courting couples or those in the process of developing a relationship with the opposite sex; covering several aspects of correspondence between a romantically involved man and woman.This book also...

What is reading? In this groundbreaking book, esteemed researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, and Steven Strauss, explain not only what reading really is but also why common sense makes it seem to be something quite different from that reality. How can...

International literacy assessments have provided ample data for ranking nations, charting growth, and casting blame. Summarizing the findings of these assessments, which afford a useful vantage from which to view world literacy as it evolves, this book...

The essays, research studies, and pedagogical examples in this book provide a window into the embodied dimensions of literacy and a toolbox for interpreting, building on, and inquiring into the range of ways people communicate and express themselves as...

Complex factors affect young children and their families in today's increasingly diverse world characterized by globalization, the transnational movement of people, and neo-liberal government policies in western and industrialized countries. This book...

Exploring Diversity through Multimodality, Narrative, and Dialogue awakens educators to the ways in which values, beliefs, language use, culture, identity, social class, race, and other factors filter approaches to teaching and expectations for students...

Putting a multiliteracies framework at the center of the world language curriculum, this volume brings together college-level curricular innovations and classroom projects that address differences in meaning and worldviews expressed in learners' primary...

Grounded in both theory and practice, with implications for both, this book is about children's perspectives on the borders that society erects, and their actual, symbolic, ideational and metaphorical movement across those borders. Based on extensive...

This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective answers two key questions asked by many teachers and scholars in the field: Does young adult literature stand up on its own as...

Introductio In Linguam Graecam (1772) est liber scriptus a Walch, Johanne Ernsto Immanuele, qui est instructio completa in linguam Graecam. In hoc libro, auctor explicat linguam Graecam, eius origines, grammaticam, syntaxim, et vocabularium. Opus...

This book is a self-analysis of Shelley Robinson'sown act of creative writing. In a (modified) think-aloud protocol, Robinson metacognitively reflects upon her own act of writing,working in three rhetorical forms of writing: 1) a poem(imaginative); 2)...

Monsters are horrifying creatures, yet they also fascinate and attract heroes and readers. How can these contradictory emotions and responses be explained and why do we like monsters although they scare us? In this book, the author Susanne Zhanial uses...

This book presents a study that explored the metacognitive reading strategies used by Arabic native speakers when reading in Arabic and English. The study aimed at finding out 1)the strategies that Arabic native speakers report using in English and...

Crime stories offer a great opportunity to observe gender confrontation in the issues of identifying and interpreting facts, and the questions of justice and morality. How women and men interpret actual situations is influenced by their learned...

Artistic accomplishment was an important social and cultural skill for young women of the elite and aristocratic classes in the eighteenth century. Georgiana Keate, the subject of this book, is an example of just such an accomplished young woman. Using...

The field of literacy teacher education has experienced dramatic shifts over the past several decades. A rise in neoliberal policies have led to educational reforms on teaching, assessment, and marketplace competition in schooling contexts...

Time has changed and so have the professional and academic scenarios. We are witnessing scientific and technological revolutions world over, making life move really fast to catch up with the changes taking place around us. With these changes it is...

Paratexts turn a text into a book: they are those (textual and non-textual) 'thresholds' the reader comes across when entering the literary world. The preface, dedications, quotations (or 'motti'), cover illustrations, blurbs and of course the...

This book tries to investigate the application of major narrative techniques used in Achebe's novels. The main objectives of the book are identifying the narrative techniques used in Achebe's novels and pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of...