English & Literacy/Language Arts

Through reports from classrooms where on-line virtual worlds are in use, this book invites readers to consider the realities and possibilities of this emerging and valuable pedagogy for teaching specific literary works...

This text provides both the conceptual knowledge to support teachers' instructional decisions in the reading/literacy classroom and a multitude of instructional strategy lessons for classroom use with both monolingual and bilingual students...

This text provides both the conceptual knowledge to support teachers' instructional decisions in the reading/literacy classroom and a multitude of instructional strategy lessons for classroom use with both monolingual and bilingual students...

Teaching the Language Arts helps readers envision their future classrooms, including the role technology will play, as they prepare to be effective teachers. The book’s multimedia digital format represents a distinctive way to learn about teaching—combining traditional and electronic content, resour..

This collection chronicles a collaborative action research project joining researchers and practitioners in the development of multimodal literacies pedagogies for multilingual and diverse elementary classrooms...

Uses the case of a 6th grade classrm in a small US town to systematically consider how pre-adolescent middle-school children develop a knowledge & understanding of the conventions of art & how they use this knowledge to create artful representations...

In this volume, prominent scholars address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and discuss what it will take to close the achievement gap. Making a significant contribution to the field, the achievement gap is redefined as a level at which all groups can compete economically in..

In this volume, prominent scholars address educational and reading research from varied perspectives and discuss what it will take to close the achievement gap. Making a significant contribution to the field, the achievement gap is redefined as a level at which all groups can compete economically in..

The Cognitive Development of Reading and Reading Comprehension is a multidisciplinary, evidence-based resource for teachers and researchers that examines reading comprehension from a cognitive development perspective, including the principal theories and methods used in the discipline...

This book thoroughly covers how to teach the Common Core’s language standards for grades 9-12, on topics such as varying syntax for effect, using domain-specific words and phrases, analyzing nuances in word meanings, using semicolons to link related clauses, and more...

This book thoroughly covers how to teach the Common Core’s language standards for grades 9-12, on topics such as varying syntax for effect, using domain-specific words and phrases, analyzing nuances in word meanings, using semicolons to link related clauses, and more...

This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowledge) levels. It will be of theoretical and practical interest to cognitive scientists & reading researchers..