Literacy Books

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...

This book investigates the relationships between chaos theory, feminism, and postmodern literary theory, based on two premises. On the one hand, it considers the traditional view of hermetically distinct fields and disciplines no longer corresponding to...

ContentsEDITORIAL - Brian Coman;FREEDOM FROM RELIGION AND FREEDOMFROM IRRELIGION - James Franklin;THE KNIFE OF SERPENT HORN: THE ORIGINSAND NATURE OF ECOLOGY AS A SCIENTIFICDISCIPLINE - Brian Coman;THE DEVIL'S DELUSION BY DAVID BERLINSKI- Harry...

The Language of Emily Dickinson provides valuable insight into the cryptic, complex, and unique language of America’s premier poet. The essays make each subject of exploration accessible to general readers, providing sufficient background and...

COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 8.2 (Spring, 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,...

This heart-fulfilling story illustrates the hardships that pets experience when their owners choose to neglect them for personal reasons. Animals tend to suffer when they do not receive their anticipated attention when greeting or welcoming their owners...

In Contemporary times, the fundamental nature of literacy remains unchanged; it is for this reason that the lessons of 1880 to 1930 are still quite relevant.

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This book examines literacy practices of commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup in Argentina. Drawing on research conducted across three distinct sites in Buenos Aires in March 2016-a public university, a Catholic church,...

This pioneering work examines changes in the life and values of the English working class in response to mass media. First published in 1957, it mapped out a new methodology in cultural studies based around interdisciplinarity and a concern with how...

Talking Beyond the Page shows how different kinds of picturebooks can be used with children of all ages and highlights the positive educational gains to be made from reading, sharing, talking and writing about picturebooks. With contributions from some...

Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguists. Susan Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and acquaintance rape...

Students whose first language is not English, who usually come from diverse academic backgrounds which differ from that of western academic conventions, apply to study in English-speaking universities. They are required to show evidence of an appropriate...

In an innovative mixed-methods, action research study, Dr. Brimi explores the effect of research- based writing instruction on the intrinsic motivation of extrinsically-motivated students. Brimi's work demonstrates how ten simple principles for...

The author, in this work, has exposed ritual strategies that establish the Abiku concept in African literature and provided access to intangible realms and narrative devices, such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, astral travel and use of animals as agents...

The poor performance of pupils in reading comprehension tasks has caught the attention of all stakeholders in the education industry in recent times. Efforts at tackling this problem have often always focused on linguistic, psychological and sociological...

Over the past years, there has been increased pressure on South African universities to produce more graduates in the natural sciences. However, due to (amongst other factors) students' poor academic literacy levels, few end up graduating. This book ...

THE BEST OF THE INDEPENDENT RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION JOURNALS 2010 represents the result of a nationwide conversation-beginning with journal editors, but expanding to teachers, scholars and workers across the discipline of Rhetoric and Composition-to...

Journal prompts that are appropriate for junior and senior high students are sometimes difficult to find. Equally difficult to find are writing prompts that also strengthen vocabulary. Journal Prompts for Secondary Students does both. This resource...

This publication is a record of the sessions presented during the annual conference of the South Central Association for Language Learning Technology (SOCALLT) held at the University of Texas at Arlington on March 7-8, 2003. All authors are current...

This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by...

Assembling a rich and diverse range of research studies on the role of plurilingualism across a wide variety of teaching and learning settings, this book supports teacher reflection and action in practical ways and illustrates how researchers tease out...

A comprehensive manual for pre- and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with multilingual students at the secondary and postsecondary levels, this text balances insights from reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested...

Cicero, Quintilian and the anonymous author of the ad Herennium each describe the art and practice of using an artificial memory system to help aid remembrance. Each of the authors' respective treatises offers an exploration of how both loci (places) and...

The Self-Fashioning of Oliver Cromwell provides a close analysis of Cromwell's letters and speeches. It assesses the influence of Cromwell's Puritan faith, and evaluates Cromwell's role in the main public arenas of his life. The work also examines the...

In mid twentieth century Britain, after the experience of total war, evil was not an abstract concept but a palpable reality. How was evil understood, and how did this understanding influence notions of English national identity?This book examines the...

Islands periodically manifest themselves within cultural texts as locations for fantasy and the exotic. Through this process they function as a literary trope. Most often they are served up as blank slates, much like early visions of the western United...

Memory is not a thing that we call upon, it is an event that we experience. Each time we speak, we do not access a memory, but create a new memory - we compose a new memory event. Our memory is a constant decomposition and recomposition process, and this...

Der Vampirroman erfreut sich auch im beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert ungebrochener Popularität und blickt somit auf eine 200-jährige Erfolgsgeschichte zurück. Dabei nimmt sich John Ajvide Lindqvists erfolgreiches literarisches Debüt "Låt den rätte komma in"...

Em "A Mandinga da voz e do corpo na capoeira angola: oralidade, performance, poesia", Salvio F. Melo contribui de forma bastante significativa para devolver à capoeira o estatuto cultural que seja coerente com o lugar que ocupou na formação de uma...

O presente livro analisa a influência dos espaços de Brasília (projetada e construída no planalto central do Brasil sob a forte influência da modernidade) nas produções poéticas de obras selecionadas de poetas e cancionistas locais da pós-modernidade. ...

Stranamente, lo studio della musica cantautoriale in chiave sociologica è piuttosto raro, perché essa viene considerata spesso un fenomeno superficiale e di difficile analisi con i tradizionali strumenti inerenti le discipline sociologiche. Ignorare però...