Literacy Books

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...

This book aims at investigating whether teaching literature and teaching grammar can be integrated in second language teaching. In the literature review part of the work the first aim is to provide a summary of the studies that have dealt with the...

Learn The Best Speed Reading Techniques Super Fast!Do You Want to Greatly Improve Your Reading Speed?Do You Want to Do It Without a Loss in Comprehension?And Do You Want to Learn How to Do It In Less Than 24 Hours?Well, let me introduce you to Speed...

This volume presents case studies of literacy practices as shaped by culture, language, community, and power. Covering a range of contexts and exploring a number of relevant dimensions in the evolving picture of literacy as situated, multiple, and...

Until about two decades ago, the study of writing systems and their relationship to literacy acquisition was sparse and generally modeled after studies of English language learners. This situation is now changing. As the worldwide demand for literacy...

In this book, Linda Laidlaw explores the questions: What happens when children begin to write? Why is it that the teaching and practice of writing seems at times to be difficult in schools? How might teachers work differently to create more inviting...

Designed to stimulate debate and critical thinking and to draw readers' attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy contexts, this book crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community,...

Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing how content knowledge, reading strategies, and motivational support all merge in successful reading...

This volume--along with its companion Ethnolinguistic Chicago: Language and Literacy in the City's Neighborhoods--fills an important gap in research on Chicago and, more generally, on language use in globalized metropolitan areas. Often cited as a...

Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East:• Introduces teachers to this literature and...

Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three...

This frontline volume contributes to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular by bringing together in a new way the traditions of language, ethnography, and education. Integrating New Literacy Studies and Bourdieusian sociology...

Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is...

With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula...

The Roma (commonly known as "Gypsies") have largely been depicted in writings and in popular culture as an illiterate group. However, as Romani Writing shows, the Roma have a deep understanding of literacy and its implications, and use writing for a...

In this innovative and engaging text, Vivian Maria Vasquez draws on her own classroom experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre-kindergarten children can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum...

How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical...

Today's youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how...

Literacy researchers at all stages of their careers are designing and developing innovative new methods for analyzing data in a range of spaces in and out of school. Directly connected with evolving themes in literacy research, theory, instruction, and...

Bridging the fields of youth studies and language planning and policy, this book takes a close, nuanced look at Indigenous youth bi/multilingualism across diverse cultural and linguistic settings, drawing out comparisons, contrasts, and important...

This accessible and reader-friendly book will help you assess and determine the foundational reading needs of each of your K - 5 students. Literacy leaders Jill Dunlap Brown and Jana Schmidt offer an easy-to-use data analysis tool called, "The Columns"...

This book examines how corpora and corpus linguistics techniques can be used to identify and improve problematic questions in multiple choice English language tests aimed at Japanese students. Three types of problematic test questions were identified in...

You read to your preschool child every day.  You fill your home with books.  You encourage and inspire.  You're doing everything right.  Yet, your child still may struggle to learn to read.  Why?  What can you do to...

This publication, written for grades for grades 5-8, is designed to offer educators science content articles that support the learning of the Nature of Science as well as support reading comprehension skills. All 11 articles align with Common Core ELA...

In this distinguished collection the deeper cognitive aspects of writing systems are for the first time added to the perceptual and physiological dimensions and brought into a coherent whole. The result is a multifaceted...

How do American girls compose and amend their identities? In this text, prominent scholars in their respective fields examine the complex social and cultural constructions that shape girls' lives both in and out of school. The book looks at matters...

Latin American Literacy and Numeracy Studies (LALNS) are fairly unknown in other parts of the world. This book charts new directions in LALNS and explores the relationship between these studies and international perspectives. Calling upon social practice...