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Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives
Donna E. Alvermann
Paperback - $110.95
This volume focuses on exploring the impact of adolescents' identity-making practices in mediating their perceptions of themselves as readers and writers in an era of externally mandated reforms aimed at improving all students' literacy acheivements. ...
Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas
Patricia L. Anders
Paperback - $70.95
Key features of this important new book include:
Teaching Flexibility. Although written with the needs of pre-service teachers in mind, theory and research are treated in sufficient depth to make the book suitable for graduate courses and for tea ...
Portraits of Literacy Across Families, Communities, and Schools : Intersections and Tensions
Jim Anderson
Paperback - $101.95
This unique global perspective on multiple literacies crosses traditional boundaries between the study of family, community, and school literacies. It calls attention to the ideological nature of literacy education across a broad range of literacy co ...
How to Support Your Child with Reading - How to Help Children Aged 0-11
A. Angell
Paperback - $36.95
A superb new book for UK parents, 2005. Offers GOLD STANDARD ADVICE, ages 0-11. An ESSENTIAL INVESTMENT buy; helps you to help your child from birth -11 years. CONTAINS ALL THE KEY FACTS, ADVICE & IDEAS YOU WILL NEED as a parent, yet clear and easy t ...
The Metamorphosis of Heads : Textual Struggles, Education, and Land in the Andes
Denise Y. Arnold
Hardcover - $72.95
Since the days of the Spanish Conquest, the indigenous populations of Andean Bolivia have struggled to preserve their textile-based writings. This struggle continues today, both in schools and within the larger culture. "The Metamorphosis of Heads" e ...
Critical Thinking Middle School : Readings in Nonficton with Booklet
Donald L. Barnes
Paperback - $27.95
Develop students? critical-thinking skills with these revisions of our best-selling As Sure as Eggs is Eggs and Cut to the Chase! Supports strategies for discovering cause-effect relationships, rules of rational thinking, and more Analyzes writers? a ...
Literacy and Young Children : Research-Based Practices
Diane Barone
Paperback - $59.95
This book presents current, research-based best practices for supporting young children's development as readers and writers. From leading figures in early literacy, the book demonstrates that scientifically grounded instruction need not be dull, dri ...