English & Literacy/Language Arts

The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition introduces the various grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and examines methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best classroom practices for teaching grammar and writing...

The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition introduces the various grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and examines methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best classroom practices for teaching grammar and writing...

This book provides a conceptual framework and empirical examples for thinking about how time and space operate as contextual dimensions in the learning lives of students...

Discusses the language of thinking; the different aspects of the thinking process - everyday thought, creative and critical thought; and methods advocated for teaching children to think. The author argues that learning to think is less a matter of instruction than of experience and opportunity...

Originally published in 1995. This book reviews the situation concerning the teaching of 'English' in schools, examining particularly the notion of 'literacy'. The authors offer practical suggestions to primary and secondary teachers across Key Stages and at A-level. They relate theory to practise, ..

Suitable for anyone wanting to develop the reading skills of secondary pupils who struggle, this accessible resource offers practical advice and activities. It explores a variety of different aspects of reading: how reading is taught, why it is such an important skill for the individual, how to moti..

This practical, concise guide shows teachers what they need to know about language, how it is learned, how it is used, and how teaching about it can be incorporated into lessons throughout the curriculum...

This practical, concise guide shows teachers what they need to know about language, how it is learned, how it is used, and how teaching about it can be incorporated into lessons throughout the curriculum...

First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices...

This accessible "how to" book about classroom interaction offers teachers powerful tools of discourse analysis as a way of understanding the complex dynamics of human interaction that constitute effective, equitable teaching and learning and guides them step-by-step through how to build their intera..

This book illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill social values and foster change. It offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocac..