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The New Literacies
With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning—and the changing nature of literacy itself—in today's K–12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking sites, text messaging, and online communities. Cutting-edge approaches to integrating technology into traditional, print-centered reading and writing instruction are described. Also discussed are ways to teach the new skills and strategies that students need to engage effectively with digital texts. The book is unique in examining new literacies through multiple theoretical lenses, including behavioral, semiotic, cognitive, sociocultural, critical, and feminist perspectives.
Handbook of Research on New Literacies
Situated at the intersection of two of the most important areas in educational research today — literacy and technology — this handbook draws on the potential of each while carving out important new territory. It provides leadership for this newly emerging field, directing scholars to the major issues, theoretical perspectives, and interdisciplinary research pertaining to new literacies. Reviews of research are organized into six sections: Methodologies Knowledge and Inquiry Communication Popular Culture, Community, and Citizenship: Everyday Literacies Instructional Practices and Assessment Multiple Perspectives on New Literacies Research FEATURES Brings together a diverse international ...
Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, and Word Analysis for Teachers
A practical, self-paced tutorial on the phonics, phonemic awareness, and word analysis topics students need to know to succeed on teacher certification or competency tests. A classic in the field, written by two highly respected authorities. KEY TOPICS: Recognizing Words: Helping Children Develop Word Analysis Strategies; The Early Stages: Phonological and Phonemic Awareness; Phonics: Onset, Rime, and Consonant Patterns; Phonics: Vowel Patterns; Context; Sight Words; Morphemic Analysis; Chunking Words into Smaller Units: Syllabication and Structural Analysis; The Dictionary and Word Analysis; Developmental Spelling Patterns: Insights into the Development of Word Analysis Skills MARKET: Pre- and in-service teachers preparing for the state reading exams now required in many states, and those who are taking teacher certification or competency tests.
The Administration and Supervision of Reading Programs
Now in its Third Edition, this popular textbook offers valuable information about administering effective reading programs from the pre-elementary through the college level. All chapters have been revised to include the most current information, trends, and research, and a new chapters has been added on college/university reading programs.
Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy
The Seventh Edition of this foundational text represents the most comprehensive source available for connecting multiple and diverse theories to literacy research, broadly defined, and features both cutting-edge and classic contributions from top scholars. Two decades into the 21st century, the Seventh Edition finds itself at a crossroads and differs from its predecessors in three major ways: the more encompassing term literacy replaces reading in the title to reflect sweeping changes in how readers and writers communicate in a digital era; the focus is on conceptual essays rather than a mix of essays and research reports in earlier volumes; and most notably, contemporary literacy models and...
Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education
How do educators best prepare students for the new literacies that will define their future? Quite possibly that is the single greatest challenge they face in literacy education today. Innovative Approaches to Literacy Education: Using the Internet to Support New Literacies will help K-12 educators respond to this challenge with valuable insight on the fundamental changes to literacy, literacy learning, and literacy instruction that are brought forth by information and communication technologies. Editors Rachel A. Karchmer, Marla H. Mallette, Donald J. Leu, Jr., and Julia Kara-Soteriou make important connections among theory, research, and practice by offering the stories of pioneering, awar...
Theoretical Models and Processes of Reading
This volume is segmented into four sections: historical changes in reading, processes of reading and literacy, models of reading and literacy processes, and new paradigms. The process section should assist students in understanding and visualizing the exploration of important research questions.
Best Practices in Literacy Instruction, Sixth Edition
Many tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers have relied on this highly regarded text from leading experts, now in a revised and updated sixth edition. The latest knowledge about literacy teaching and learning is distilled into flexible strategies for helping all PreK-12 learners succeed. The book addresses major components of literacy, the needs of specific populations, motivation, assessment, approaches to organizing instruction, and more. Each chapter features bulleted previews of key points; reviews of the research evidence; recommendations for best practices in action, including examples from exemplary classrooms; and engagement activities that help teachers apply the knowledge and strategies they have learned. New to This Edition *Incorporates the latest research findings and instructional practices. *Chapters on new topics: developmental word study and the physiological, emotional, and behavioral foundations of literacy learning. *Chapters offering fresh, expanded perspectives on writing and vocabulary. *Increased attention to timely issues: classroom learning communities, teaching English learners, and the use of digital tools and multimodal texts.
Handbook of Multiple Source Use
The Handbook of Multiple Source Use draws on theory and research within cognitive and educational psychology, the learning sciences, disciplinary education, information literacy, reading psychology, and social psychology, to present the first comprehensive research volume on this topic. Many learners both in and out of school have almost instantaneous access to an enormous range of information sources at present. In this book, broken into six sections, international scholars come together toward understanding factors that influence how individuals cope with the challenge of building knowledge from diverse, often conflicting, information.
