English & Literacy/Language Arts

This book examines how the teaching of reading can be reclaimed from government mandates, scripted commercial programs, and high stakes tests via intensive reconsideration of learning, teaching, curriculum, language, and sociocultural contexts...

This book examines how the teaching of reading can be reclaimed from government mandates, scripted commercial programs, and high stakes tests via intensive reconsideration of learning, teaching, curriculum, language, and sociocultural contexts...

This book offers pedagogical strategies for reclaiming writing spaces in classrooms and the knowledge base in which they are grounded. Writing is considered across the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digital formats...

This book offers pedagogical strategies for reclaiming writing spaces in classrooms and the knowledge base in which they are grounded. Writing is considered across the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digital formats...

Inviting middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies, this edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives focuses on bridging students’ everyday literacies and school learning...

Inviting middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies, this edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives focuses on bridging students’ everyday literacies and school learning...

Employing the lens of “critical sociocultural research,” this landmark volume articulates and develops the argument that new directions in sociocultural theory are needed in order to address important issues of identity, agency, and power...

Informed by international research and illustrated throughout with examples and case studies of the experiences of the classroom teachers involved in the research, Researching Children‘s Literacy Lives offers fresh insight into literacy teaching and learning. It looks towards the future and prompts ..

Science Homework for Key Stage 2 is a unique resource for busy teachers - a selection of ‘pencil-free’, hands-on activities, aligned with the National Curriculum Programmes of Study...

This wonderful resource from two authors with an infectious enthusiasm for children's literature will help readers select and share quality books for and with young children. Specifically focused on infants through the third grade, Sharing the Journey contains descriptive book annotations, instructi..

Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning..

This text examines theories of identity and elementary literacy practices, highlighting the influences of school and home contexts on students' identities as readers and writers. Data was collected from three sites where teachers implemented writing workshops...