Literacy Books

Workbook 3 is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Workbook 5 is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Workbook 2 is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Workbook C is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Workbook B is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Workbook 4 is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Learning and Literacy over Time addresses two gaps in literacy research-studies offering longitudinal perspectives on learners and the trajectory of their learning lives inside and outside of school, and studies revealing how past experiences with...

This popular text articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy-in all its complexity. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze...

Reclaiming English Language Arts Methods Courses showcases innovative work in teacher education that fosters teachers' capacities as reflective practitioners and public intellectuals; extends traditional boundaries of methods courses on teaching the...

This volume presents case studies of language learning beyond the classroom. The studies draw on a wide range of contexts, from North and South America to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Each provides principled links between theory, research and...

The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book. It documents the need for literacy education for children and parents, describes early literacy and math development...

The unprecedented rate of global, technological, and societal change calls for a radical, new understanding of literacy. This book offers a nuanced framework for making sense of literacy by addressing knowledge as contextualised, embodied, multimodal,...

The book deals with the pastoral convention which emerged with many authors like Theocritus, Virgil, Shakespeare, wordsworth and last but not least Frost.This convention investigates the relationship between man and nature and the question of man's...

Are you interested in English literature and criticism? This book is going to provide a reading on three novels by Ian McEwan, a British author, by applying masculine crisis on the male protagonists. All through the novels, male characters try to regain...

This book is focused on proving the fact that characters from the prose of John Ronald Reul Tolkien are based primarily on the sources from old mythology, namely the Old Germanic literature as Elder and Snorri´s Edda, the Old English epos Beowulf and...

William Shakespeare's plays reflect Elizabethan society.By manipulating our senses of what constitutes reality,plays/texts evoke people and culture for us.By telling us tales of the Orient and the Orientals,Shakespeare actually represents them.He...

A two-volume set of English language textbooks for fourth and fifth graders, featuring lessons on grammar, composition, and reading comprehension.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...

This book examines how working-class high school students' identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it...

This volume gives intellectual space to a range of current perspectives on classroom discourse research and provides a forum for conversations about the research process. Classroom discourse researchers from different theoretical perspectives provide...

The first in a two-volume set of selected papers presented at the 3rd Pan-African Conference on Reading for All, in Kampala, Uganda. This volume considers literacy within the formal education system in Africa, bringing international perspectives to the...

The nineteenth century was a time of fundamental changes in British society. The great Victorian writer Thomas Hardy reflects upon this time of transition by creating a setting for his regional novels which is much more than a mere background to the...

American writer E. B. White once said: "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it" ("E.B. White" 2013). Whether the following dissection also causes death is up to the reader, although the analyzing of a...

This thesis explores the continuing aesthetic, philosophical, and social influences of Romantic and Modernist poetics. I trace the influence of Romanticism and Modernism as one that allows for a medium of expression that more clearly interprets both the...

Voices of teachers participating in an abrupt curricular change over two years shed light on the complexities of teacher change processes, tracing the interplay of issues of teachers' knowledge and experience on change. Qualitative analysis revealed that...

Not even Joseph Conrad might have thought that his novel, Nostromo, will be so topical at the beginning of the 21st century as it was more than a hundred years ago. It was first published in 1904, but it seems that the fundamental problems of the world...

The idea and image of Englishness has changed a lot within the last decades. As Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has memorably observed, modern Britain is "more reflected in multiracial families, curry and the fiction of Zadie Smith than the Royal family, fish and...

In this work I intend to explore the impacts of the Oriental and Wes­tern values, trends and views of life in E. E. Cummings's art. Consi­dering that he was an avant-garde poet and a Cubist painter, the avant-garde trends in his poetry are supposed to be...

This book seeks to demonstrate how the experience of exile was reflected in the work of 20th century Czech writers. It does so by way of an examination of the respective responses of Jan Drabek and Jaroslav Vejvoda to two historical traumas: the 1948...

The 1990s saw a climax of adaptations of novels previously accepted into the American literary canon, while television and radio marketed literature through book clubs and literary shows. This book argues that the U.S. mediatized literature of the 1990s...

This book aims to present the power of the African American oral folk traditions. It shows how a simple folk song is able to embody past and present,family origins and cultural identity at the same time. In Song of Solomon Morrison calls the attention of...

From the death of the last great medieval monarch, Henry V, until the ascendancy of Henry Tudor as Henry VII, England underwent a long and bloody transition from feudal kingdom to early modern state. Shakespeare's minor tetralogy is the story of this...

You hold a book of good intensions in your hand. The problem is that the realization of these intensions, namely, reaching the Ideal determines the destiny of others in some cases. How far can go a scientist in reaching his ambitious strives? Is he...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 14.1 (Fall 2019) | 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...

A volume in TeachingLearning Indigenous, Intercultural Worldviews:International Perspectives on Social Justice and Human RightsSeries Editor: Tonya Huber, St. Cloud State University, MinnesotaIn an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 9.1 (Fall 2014) | 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 education, early...

PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING | Series Editor, Susan H. McLeod | "LITERATE ACTION, in its two volumes, makes an indispensable contribution to writing studies. Undertaken by one of the most learned and visionary scholars in the field, this work has a...

Weblogs are about reading and writing. Literacy is about reading and writing. Blogging equals literacy. How rarely does an aspect of how we live and work plug so perfectly into how we teach and learn? Reading this book will give teachers important clues...

This inviting book is a bridge between two major strands of reading instruction that are often held in opposition: the science of reading and artful approaches to teaching reading. Although the current climate of literacy instruction positions these...

Workbook D is part of a series of literacy workbooks designed by psychologists and specialist teachers to help your child progress quickly. This workbook is part of a series designed for learners from early literacy through to an adult spelling level...

Parent/tutor Beverly Black Johnson, founder of the"Gumbo for the Soul Literacy Program", and compiler ofGumbo for the Soul: the Recipe for Literacy in the Black Community-an anthology intended to heighten awareness of the growing high schooldrop-out rate...

Transnational Literature: The Basics provides an indispensable overview of this important new field of study and the literature it explores. It concisely describes the various ways in which literature can be understood as being "transnational," explains...

Dalit literature has so very visibly expanded the horizon of Indian literature and criticism and transformed people's preferences. Dalit literature has awakened many new social strata and made new literary contributions. This literature has always stood...