Böcker i Language and Literacy Series-serien

Argues that literature fosters ways of thinking that go far beyond understanding the conventions of genre and text. This revision of Judith Langer's classic bestseller builds on more than 15 years of research and development projects in elementary, middle, and high schools, in inner-city as well as suburban and rural communities.

Rooted in examples from their own and others' classrooms, the authors of this book offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning.

Learn how to develop and sustain multimodal, project-based learning (PBL) instruction in secondary English Language Arts classrooms. National standards encourage authentic forms of reading, writing, and communication that can support college and career readiness, and this book highlights PBL as a powerful way to harness students' interests.

How can educators understand writing assessment as and with technology in the 21st-century classroom? Thisl contends that new technologies are neither the problem nor the solution. Instead, educators need to tap into digital resources only inasmuch as they promote writing and its assessment as rhetorical with authentic purposes, audiences, and contexts.

An ethnographic study of a child's efforts to belong - to be a child among children - that confronts race and racism head-on. Follow the journey of a small Black child, Ta'Von, as he moves from a culturally inclusive preschool through the early grades in a school located in a majority white neighbourhood

Through compelling stories of restorative literacies, Wolter explores the complex relationships among cognition, metacognition, identity, behaviour in schools, and literacies. Based on the principles of restorative justice, restorative literacies are designed to help educators repair harm, restore relationships, and expand the concept of literacy.

This practical resource will help K-6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners. Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals.

Presents an examination of the development, evolution, and current realities of educating emergent bilinguals in US classrooms. The text begins by showing how the authors evolved from monolingual language educators to translanguaging educators and ends with concrete takeaways for successfully using an inclusive translanguaging approach.

Filled with day-to-day practices, this book will help elementary school teachers tackle the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Readers will learn about culturally relevant pedagogies as young children learn literacy and a critical stance through music, oral histories, name stories, intergenerational texts, and heritage lessons.

How do school communities create environments that fully prepare both English learners and dual-language learners for colleges and careers? Profiling six high-performing high schools, the authors identify design elements and shared values that were key factors in yielding extraordinary results.

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favourite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming schools and students' futures.

Focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of English language arts classrooms. With detailed analysis and authentic classroom vignettes, the author explores how teachers cultivate relationships for equity, utilize transformative language practices, demonstrate critical caring, and develop students' critical literacies.

Responding to the need to prepare elementary teachers for the increasing linguistic diversity in schools, this book presents key foundational principles in language and literacy development for linguistically diverse students. Readers see these ideas enacted through the journeys of real students as they progress from 1st through 6th grade.

This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, "You Gotta BE the Book" continues to help teachers meet new challenges.

This resource will help K-2 teachers revitalize and restructure their classroom literacy instruction based on Marie Clay's groundbreaking and transformative literacy processing theory. This practical volume gives primary grade teachers specific suggestions for using these principles and includes rich, robust instructional examples to ensure that all children meet new and rigorous standards.

Addresses the educational needs of transnational youth. The author describes a coherent approach to English language arts and literacy education that supports the literacy learning and development of transnational students, while incorporating these students' unique experiences to enrich the learning of all students.

Synthesizes the essential research and practice of social equity literacy teaching in one succinct, user-friendly volume. Chapters identify six key dimensions of social equity teaching that can help teachers see their students' potential and create conditions that will support their literacy development.

Lays out an inspiring new vision for the teaching of English, building on themes central to Wilhelm's influential `You Gotta BE The Book'. This new work challenges business as usual in the language arts and calls for a revolution in our understanding of the aims and methods of the English classroom, showing what English can do for democratic life, inside and outside of classrooms.

This work develops an understanding of literacy and illiteracy through the life stories of 12 adults from diverse backgrounds in the USA. It demonstrates how they work long and hard, make limited use of public resources, can use technology when shown, and have pride and self-respect.

Detailing an examination of language, literacy and school reform, this work provides an inside view of how teacher research and reform can positively change both teachers and students, making then better readers, writers and learners.

In individually written chapters for middle school/junior schools, this volume provides examples of interactive teaching including descriptions of activities and samples of student writing and drawing.

This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo, heirloom, or recipe to tell intergenerat

Presents a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction from kindergarten through high school. This practical book presents a research-based program that includes four parts: language experiences, teaching individual words, teaching word learning strategies, and fostering word consciousness.

The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. This book identifies several important commonalities across oral and written language. It incorporates various examples from a diverse range of children engaged in authentic literacy experiences.

This practical resource will help K-5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. The authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally-supported Disciplinary Literacy - a framework that introduces an approach for integrating disciplinary literacy into instruction using digital tools.