Literacy

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. The 7+ ...

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. The 7+ ...

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research. The authors expertly and critically situate L2 reading and lite...

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research. The authors expertly and critically situate L2 reading and lite...

It is a commonplace in educational policy and theory to claim that digital technology has ‘transformed’ the university, the nature of learning and ...

Fake news and misinformation is everywhere. Learn how to teach elementary students to locate reliable information, evaluate sources, and develop th...

For young people who have opted to continue their education post-sixteen, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the independent learning w...

By integrating conversations across disciplines, especially focusing on classical studies and Jewish and Christian studies, this volume addresses s...

For young people who have opted to continue their education post-sixteen, it is difficult to overstate the importance of the independent learning w...

Drawing on autoethnographic research on literacy autobiographies from a Chinese EFL writing context, this book provides unique insights into litera...

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea...

First Published in 1979. These volumes explore the range and depth of our theoretical and practical knowledge about early reading instruction. Cont...

This collection features papers addressing current issues in reading comprehension from cognitive and linguistic perspectives. Organized into three...

This book presents current, research-based best practices for supporting young children's development as readers and writers. From leading figures ...

The book provides a historical overview of adult literacy theory, policy, practice, and research from the mid-1980s to the present. The main focus ...

Every day in classrooms, teachers and students think about and with text. Their beliefs about what text is, who created it, and how to evaluate it ...

This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowle...

Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace explores changing understandings of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It poi...

The concepts of the past, centered more narrowly on traditional ways of learning to read and write, no longer suffice in a society that requires hi...

This volume explores higher level, critical, and creative thinking, as well as reflective decision making and problem solving -- what teachers shou...

This volume constitutes a unique contribution to the literature on literacy and culture in several respects. It links together aspects of social va...

Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing...

The central question in this volume is how to create a society of "engaged readers" in today's world, where reading is increasingly overruled by ot...

Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning Across Languages and Cultures is a cross-over volume in the literature between first and sec...

This volume presents a representative cross-section of the more than 200 papers presented at the 1994 conference of the Rhetoric Society of America...

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the ...

Adult ESL/Literacy from the Community to the Community: A Guidebook for Participatory Literacy Training tells the story of a university-community c...

This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Amer...

This volume presents in-depth investigations of the processes of meaning-making during reading at both local (discourse) and global (general knowle...

This unique book tells the story of a select group of schools and teachers who have managed to beat the odds in terms of improving elementary stude...

This CIERA sponsored book is based on the premise that high-quality texts of all kinds are essential to good teaching in elementary classrooms. Exp...

The chapters in this volume are based on presentations made at a recent conference on cognitive and linguistic foundations of reading acquisition. ...

During the last 20 years, there has been an enormous amount of research examining sources of coherence in reading. A major tenet of this work has b...

The concepts of the past, centered more narrowly on traditional ways of learning to read and write, no longer suffice in a society that requires hi...

This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Amer...

The central question in this volume is how to create a society of "engaged readers" in today's world, where reading is increasingly overruled by ot...

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the ...

In this book, Kathleen Tyner examines the tenets of literacy through a historical lens to demonstrate how new communication technologies are resist...

Researchers from a variety of disciplines have collected verbal protocols of reading as a window on conscious reading processes. Because such work ...

This volume was designed to identify the current limits of progress in the psychology of reading and language processing in an information processi...

Researchers from a variety of disciplines have collected verbal protocols of reading as a window on conscious reading processes. Because such work ...

This book comprises a synthesis of current directions in reading research, theory, and practice unified by what has been referred to as the engagem...

In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to...

This unique book tells the story of a select group of schools and teachers who have managed to beat the odds in terms of improving elementary stude...

Learning to read is not natural for many individuals, who remain dependent on the skill, knowledge, and persistence of their teachers to acquire re...

Making culture a more central concept in the texts and contexts of teacher education is the focus of this book. It is a rich account of the author'...

This edited volume grew out of a conference that brought together beginning reading experts from the fields of education and the psychology of read...

During the past decades, literacy has gradually become a major concern all over the world. Though there is a great diversity in both the distributi...