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Understanding Reading Problems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 504

Understanding Reading Problems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-21
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  • Publisher: Pearson

"This title is only available as a loose-leaf version with Pearson eText." The market-leading, dependable guide for assessing literacy at every stage of development and implementing corrective instruction. In this widely popular book, classroom teachers get up-to-date coverage of reading processes, their assessment, and their corrective instruction, including thorough treatment of reading and writing at every stage of development. The new edition provides updated coverage of the Common Core State Standards and the imperative to teach English learners. Included are an overview of essential reading processes acquiring emergent literacy concepts, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and compr...

Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction

"With 50% new material reflecting current research and pedagogical perspectives, this indispensable course text and teacher resource is now in a thoroughly revised third edition. Leading educators provide a comprehensive picture of reading, writing, and oral language instruction in grades 5-12. Chapters present effective practices for motivating adolescent learners, fostering comprehension of multiple types of texts, developing disciplinary literacies, engaging and celebrating students' sociocultural assets, and supporting English learners and struggling readers. Case examples, lesson-planning ideas, and end-of-chapter discussion questions and activities enhance the utility of the volume. Ke...

Equity in Discourse for Mathematics Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

Equity in Discourse for Mathematics Education

This book explores the connection between the ways people speak in mathematics classrooms and their opportunities to learn mathematics. The words spoken, heard, written and read in mathematics classrooms shape students’ sense of what mathematics is and of what people can do with mathematics. The authors employ multiple perspectives to consider the means for transformative action with respect to increasing opportunities for traditionally marginalized students to form mathematical identities that resonate with their cultural, social, linguistic, and political beings.

Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction, Second Edition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 417

Best Practices in Adolescent Literacy Instruction, Second Edition

An authoritative teacher resource and widely adopted text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of adolescent literacy instruction in the era of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). Leading educators describe effective practices for motivating diverse learners in grades 5-12, building comprehension of multiple types of texts, integrating literacy and content-area instruction, and teaching English language learners and struggling readers. Case examples, lesson-planning ideas, and end-of-chapter discussion questions and activities enhance the utility of the volume. New to This Edition *Extensive CCSS content incorporated throughout the book. *Chapters on disciplinary literacy, text complexity, and differentiated instruction. *Chapters on academic language, writing instruction, history and English/language arts classrooms, and coaching.

The Beginnings of Writing
  • Language: en

The Beginnings of Writing

In The Beginnings of Writing, the authors give the clearest, most comprehensive source on young children's development of writing, illustrating every concept with student artifacts.From scribbles and invented spelling to composition, this book also presents the most careful attention to children's development available, illuminating what they are trying to do as they write. Teachers who want to understand each child's present challenges and successes as (s)he develops competence in writing--and then offer appropriate instruction and support at each point in the child's learning--can turn to this highly popular, well-respected book for practical, clear guidance. In it readers get a detailed s...

Teach It!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 55

Teach It!

The Teach It! lesson plan booklet, written by classroom teacher and author Jean Gillett of the Orange County Public Schools in Virginia with Codruta Temple, doctoral student at Syracuse University, contains a wide variety of ready-to-use, classroom-tested activities for teaching critical concepts in Literacy Education. All activities are correlated to lessons in the text itself. This free supplement, packaged with the book, is the perfect resource for first time and experienced literacy teachers. The Teach It! booklet also contains students' personal access codes and instructions for gaining access to Research Navigator.

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature

Much of teachers’ attention these days is focused on having students read closely to ferret out the author’s intended meaning and the devices used to convey that meaning. But we cannot forget to guide students to have moving engagements with literature, because they need to make strong personal connections to books of merit if they are to become the next generation of readers: literate people with awareness of and concern for the diversity of human beings around them and in different times and places. Fortunately, guiding both students’ personal engagement with literature and their close reading to appreciate the author’s message and craft are not incompatible goals. This book enthus...

Immigration and Children’s Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Immigration and Children’s Literature

This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspective of young children who are leaving their homelands and growing up as immigrants. The book focuses primarily on children from birth to 8 years old but with crossover and implications for older children. The chapters reveal the social, economic, and political issues faced by child immigrants, refugees and asylees thro...

Literacy for All in Africa: Teaching reading in African schools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Literacy for All in Africa: Teaching reading in African schools

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 topic. It documents programs that are working to improve practices and the teaching of reading in schools and literacy in more than one language, presenting case studies from Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Nigeria. It addresses the subject of developing culturally appropriate educational and literacy materials, particularly in African languages. The final section considers more esoteric debates about cultural barriers to reading and the development of a reading culture, and the cultural differences in reading and interpretation of literary texts.

Beginnings of Writing, the Plus NEW MyEducationLab -- Access Card
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Beginnings of Writing, the Plus NEW MyEducationLab -- Access Card

ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youselect the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition,you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products. Packages Access codes for Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products may not be included when purchasing or renting from companies other than Pearson; check with the seller before completing your purchase. Used or rental books If you rent or purchase a used book with an acces...