Literacy

Inspiring Dialogue helps new English teachers make dialogic teaching practices a central part of their development as teachers, while also supporti...

Using narrative inquiry, this book shares the authors transformative journey as a literacy teacher and researcher examining her experience as a Whi...

This book will help educators rethink their expectations of and practices for developing the literacy skills of Black boys in the elementary school...

Pre-K Stories offers a lively exploration of how one classroom community played with and collaboratively engaged in authorship. Through everyday st...

Todays teachers seek to address the Holocaust not just as history, but also in relation to current events. Featuring stories from middle school, hi...

Teaching reading successfully requires deep knowledge of the reading process and development, as well as the implementation of impactful reading in...

Learn how to teach multilingual students effectively and equitably with this practical and accessible resource. The authors share real-world exampl...

Drawing provides opportunities for children to communicate their thoughts even when they do not have the vocabulary or the English proficiency to f...

Drawing Conclusions explores the use of juxtaposed visual representations (JVRs) to help preservice teachers grapple with abstract concepts, theori...

Learn how to develop and sustain multimodal, project-based learning (PBL) instruction in secondary English Language Arts classrooms. National stand...

Through eight compelling stories of restorative literacies, Wolter explores the complex relationships among cognition, metacognition, identity, beh...

Beyond the Visual is a survey of contemporary approaches to researching a wide range of visual and multimodal phenomena. Building on his earlier bo...

Elementary-aged children are often positioned as not developmentally ready to learn about race, racism, and injustice. Yet, the classroom materials...

SOAR Teaching Frames for Literacy provides a unique approach to planning, implementing, and elevating instruction that drives improvement in teachi...

2023 Literacy Research Association's Edward B. Fry Book Award Finalist Literacy educators are often unequipped to help young children contend with ...

In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with ...

This accessible book introduces a new theory of Critical Disciplinary Literacy that merges criticality and disciplinary literacy approaches in a co...

This accessible book introduces a new theory of Critical Disciplinary Literacy that merges criticality and disciplinary literacy approaches in a co...

This timely and critical look at the teaching of English shows how language is used to create hierarchies of cultural privilege in public schools a...

This practical resource will help K5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. Wit...

Drawing on the authors experiences as Black parents, researchers, teachers, and teacher educators, this timely book presents a multipronged approac...

Learn how to enact curricular, pedagogical, and policy shifts that nourish students linguistic repertoires, redefine teaching and learning as recip...

This timely book focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of Englis...

This timely book focuses on different social justice pedagogies and how they can work within standards and district mandates in a variety of Englis...

Learn how to put childrens diverse and storied experiences at the center of the curriculum. Schools are more diverse than ever before, but the text...

Learn how to center, affirm, and develop Black immigrant literacies in ways that allow all youth to engage with and honor their literacies. This bo...

This practical book provides teachers with step-by-step guidance for developing a class culture that welcomes curiosity and ignites social action. ...

Grounded in solid theory with new field-tested classroom activities, the fourth edition of Critical Encounters in Secondary English continues to he...

This practical guide will help pre- and inservice secondary teachers and their instructors and coaches to use videos as a resource to improve teach...

Examines the use of mixed methods for conducting language and literacy research, defining how and why this approach is successful for solving probl...

This popular book addresses literacy leaders eternal quest to prepare all students for the demands of the 21st century. This updated Sixth Edition ...

Because of the emphasis placed on nonfiction and informational texts by the Common Core State Standards, literature teachers all over the country a...

This practical book will help literacy teachers operationalize research on culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP) to reach all students. The authors ...

Help adolescents learn and use the academic words that will assist them in school and beyond. The author argues that words worth using must matter ...

This book provides targeted suggestions that educators can use to ensure successful teaching and learning with todays growing population of transna...

This practical resource takes educators through a planning processfrom selecting standards to designing learning activitiesthat weaves together lan...

What happens when learning is approached as a creative transaction between teachers, students, texts, and methods? Based on classroom action resear...

Constructions of Illiteracy in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Contesting the Narrative of Full Literacy offers new insights into literacy and illiterac...

This open access book explores schooling from the perspective of children via data from a longitudinal life-history study. It questions whether sch...