English & Literacy/Language Arts

The goal of this book is to answer the question What is differentiated instruction? It offers pre-service and in-service teachers the background and foundational skills they will need to understand, plan for, and achieve effective differentiated literacy instruction in their classrooms, based on ind..

This text "unpackages" the various dimensions of literacy – linguistic, cognitive, sociocultural, developmental – and accounts for the interrelationships among them, providing a strong conceptual foundation upon which literacy curriculum and instruction can be grounded...

The first few years of teaching are critical to the professional development of effective English teachers. The stories in this book are written by English teachers in the early stages of their careers. In their carefully crafted narratives, teachers offer practical strategies, professional insights..

The first few years of teaching are critical to the professional development of effective English teachers. The stories in this book are written by English teachers in the early stages of their careers. In their carefully crafted narratives, teachers offer practical strategies, professional insights..

Educating for Critical Democratic Literacy educates pre- and in-service elementary school teachers in teaching four key civics concepts through social studies and literacy integration. Written together by both literacy and social studies experts, it is based on a conceptual revision of the notions o..

This collection of Allan Luke’s key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice. The volume includes examples of policy formation for social justice, and an auto-ethnographic vie..

This collection of Allan Luke’s key writings on educational policy, curriculum, and school reform follows the development and use of critical discourse analyses to study educational policy and practice. The volume includes examples of policy formation for social justice, and an auto-ethnographic vie..

The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Informed by systemic functional linguistics, this text provides specific information to implement genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas..

The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Informed by systemic functional linguistics, this text provides specific information to implement genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas..

_x005F_x000D_ Originally published in 1991. The central aim of this book is to make English in the National Curriculum accessible and relevant to all pupils. In attempting to meet this aim, the authors set out to bring together a theoretical basis for the main English profile components and practica..

English and its Teachers offers a historical overview of the development of secondary English teaching in schools over the past fifty years. Initially charting the rise of a new progressive approach in the 1960s, the book then considers the implications for the subject and its teachers of three deca..

Taking as their starting point the most enduring insights to emerge from acclaimed researcher Arthur Applebee’s scholarship, this volume brings together leading experts to fully examine his work for its explanatory power and its potential to shape current and future research agendas, and to extend a..