Böcker i Language and Literacy Series-serien

Offers practical, evidenced-based strategies for teaching literature, informational texts, writing, and communication to students on the spectrum. The final chapter illustrates how curriculum focused on commonly taught literary works can be reimagined to accommodate the needs and draw on the strengths of students on the spectrum.

Drawing on examples from K-5 classrooms, the authors make clear what LGBTQ-inclusive literacy teaching can look like in practice, including what teachers might say and how students might respond. The text also provides readers with opportunities to consider these new approaches with respect to traditional literacy instruction.

Prominent educators and researchers propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining cultural practices rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how schools can support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world.

The essays in this book not only provide an overview of the fundamental ideas of the New London Group and their importance across literacy, communications, and media studies but also explore how they have been adapted by today's educators to better prepare students for a rapidly changing, globalized world.

Shows how teachers can pursue and sustain personally and professionally worthwhile writing practices, even amidst the many demands associated with teaching. Chapter by chapter, the book provides strategies to help teachers get started on projects, build energy for writing, overcome obstacles, create support systems using online technologies, and develop coherence across their writing lives.

Step into a classroom and ""listen in"" on the writing initiatives and motivations of students who are given significant choice and agency in the development of their writing. Filled with rich portraits of in-class writing interactions and challenges, this book highlights various themes that help teachers become better observers and more responsive to the complexity of writing in children's lives.

Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students' interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today's diverse student population within a standardized curriculum.

The story begins when some committed and curious teachers from the Red Clay Writing Project gathered into a teacher inquiry community to spend a year focusing on and documenting their experiences with one of their most disenfranchised students. By analysing and rethinking what they do in the classroom and why they do it, the authors come to re-imagine who they are as teachers and as human beings.

Addresses critical issues related to pre-adolescent and adolescent literacy learners with a focus on closing the achievement gap. Despite efforts by educators and policymakers during the past several decades, certain groups of students continue to underperform on commonly used measures of academic achievement.

Celebrates the genius of young children as they learn language and literacy in the diverse contexts that surround them. This book features stories of children whose language learning is impossible to standardize, and introduces teachers who do not follow scripts but observe, assess informally, respond to, and grow with their children.

Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of picture storybooks. This volume includes examples of children's responses and how teachers scaffold the children's interpretation of stories. It is suitable for contemporary young children with various ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Features real teachers who share their stories, successful practices, and vivid examples of their students' creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects, such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, electronic poetry, and more.

This innovative guide shows teachers how to transform high school English students into passionate readers with a trust-based approach that honors both student choice and teacher expertise. The authors begin with a series of reflective invitations to help teachers rediscover trust in themselves and in their students. The book offers methods for building confidence and critical skills through thematic book groups, the whole-class novel, and independent reading. As teachers work through each methods chapter, they will begin to create their own trust-based curriculum with the help of "Extend Your Thinking" sections. Classroom examples from urban, rural, and suburban contexts help teachers interweave trust-building methods (small reading communities, critically engaging lessons, student-led seminars, artistic response, drama, and dialogue) to create an English classroom that is once again a place of possibility and power. Trust Me! I Can Read is a practical resource that addresses the real concerns of today's English educators who are caught between the standards movement and their passion for teaching.

This collection examines the personal narratives of a select group of educators who attained biliteracy at a young age, and in the era before bilingual education. Their autobiographical accounts celebrate and make visible a linguistic potential that has been largely ignored in schools and underscores the emotional ties that Latinos have to Spanish.--[book cover]

Offering a fresh perspective on language socialization in Latino families, this book provides a historical, political, and cultural context for the language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write.

As poor, non-white communities on the far side of the digital divide become immersed in electronic media, a potential arises to use their experiences as a catalyst to transform the teaching of writing and literature. Barbara Monroe offers an analysis of instructional technology and critical multiculturalism.

This study of an innovative charter school looks at adolescent identity by analysing the language of narratives told in school. It helps readers understand why adolescents sometimes make choices that seem incomprehensible to the adults who work with them.

This is a textbook about the beliefs, issues, and practices at the forefront of literacy education - from language, ethnic, and academic diversity, to social construction of meaning and knowledge. Commentaries by literacy scholars provide an expanded perspective on the many issues raised.

Drawing on two years of research by the author among eighth and ninth grade students, this report documents how the pupils underwent a narrowing of school literacy demands, a shift in the nature of relationships with school adults, and a loss of familiar communal supports for learning.