Bøger i Literacy, Language & Learning serien

This collection of essays look at various aspects of reconceptualizing literacy, including connecting with minority perspectives, teacher education and the frameworks for understanding multicultural literacies.

Explains the process of getting our students to write and write well. This book offers practical and theoretical guidance, providing examples of a writing assignment for students middle grades through master's level. It is suitable for professors, English teachers, and students.

Focuses on how to overcome acknowledged inadequacies in learning how to teach writing as well as how to practice principled literacy instruction.

Focuses on how to overcome acknowledged inadequacies in learning how to teach writing as well as how to practice principled literacy instruction.

Argues that popular media and public debates view African-American families from a deficit perspective. This book states how portrayals of African-American families in newspapers, television, and contemporary scholarship tend to focus on single-parent households, low parental expectations, and lack of family involvement in schooling.

Lack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students' learning outside school has contributed to the difficulties educators encounter when trying to embrace cultural diversity. This book examines how literacy is practiced and lived in multiple ways within families of various backgrounds.

Designed to encourage and support in-service and pre-service teachers who want to conduct classroom-based action research about literacy teaching and learning, this book aims to facilitate active engagement in the process of action research. It provides researchers with an experience-based foundation for developing research knowledge and skills.

This is a study of women's writing in the 19th century.

Suitable for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe. This book contains national and international adaptations of the ""ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication"". It is useful for teacher educators, as well as preservice and inservice teachers.

This collection of essays look at various aspects of reconceptualizing literacy, including connecting with minority perspectives, teacher education and the frameworks for understanding multicultural literacies.

These case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors, highlight effective specific approaches to provide bridges between home and school and a look to the future for preparing teachers to communicate and connect with families and communities.

These case studies by New York State teachers, parents and professors, highlight effective specific approaches to provide bridges between home and school and a look to the future for preparing teachers to communicate and connect with families and communities.

Foreword, Joan N. Burstyn. Chapter I: Beginning to Contextualize Eliza Wright Osborne in Her Literacy. Chapter II: Wherein the Problem is Set. Chapter III: Reading the Writing of ""The Particular"": A Methodology. Chapter IV: On Their Own: Women Reading (Mostly) Women. Chapter V: Not on Their Own: Mothers and Men Prescribe Their Reading.

Intends to validate teachers for strong efforts in their life's work. This book helps readers see similarities between many of these 'hot topics' - differentiation, multiple intelligences, culturally responsive teaching, 'brain-friendly' strategies, authentic assessment, and ethical classroom management.

Explains the process of getting our students to write and write well. This book offers practical and theoretical guidance, providing examples of a writing assignment for students middle grades through master's level. It is suitable for professors, English teachers, and students.

Lack of knowledge about immigrant and minority students' learning outside school has contributed to the difficulties educators encounter when trying to embrace cultural diversity. This book examines how literacy is practiced and lived in multiple ways within families of various backgrounds.

Suitable for teacher educators and teacher education programs in the United States and Europe. This book contains national and international adaptations of the ""ABC's of Cultural Understanding and Communication"". It is useful for teacher educators, as well as preservice and inservice teachers.