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Forthcoming Language & Literacy Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. New Pop-Up Paper Projects

    Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

    By Paul Johnson

    New Pop-Up Paper Projects is an inspirational book for everyone who wants to learn and share the magic of pop-up paper engineering. Illustrated throughout with colour diagrams and photographs, this book guides you through basic techniques and foundation skills, offers advice on classroom planning...

    To Be Published May 29th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Doing Critical Literacy

    Texts and Activities for Students and Teachers

    By Hilary Janks, Kerryn Dixon, Ana Ferreira, Stella Granville, Denise Newfield

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice, it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural...

    To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Teachers and Children as Readers Together

    A more complex view of reading

    By Lizzie Smart

    A More Complex View of Reading aims to re-establish the importance of becoming a reader rather than just a child who can read. At its heart is the importance of teachers as readers themselves and their role as lead reader in their classrooms. Readers need nurturing and the teacher they share at...

    To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. International Perspectives on Teaching English in a Globalised World

    Edited by Andrew Goodwyn, Louann Reid, Cal Durrant

    Series: National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE)

    The renowned and highly experienced editors of this book bring together the leading voices in contemporary English education under the banner of the International Federation for the Teaching of English (IFTE). The collected chapters here represent the very best of international writing on the...

    To Be Published September 12th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Whose Knowledge Counts in Government Literacy Policies?

    Why Expertise Matters

    Edited by Kenneth S. Goodman, Robert C. Calfee, Yetta M. Goodman

    Accountability, in the form of standardized test scores, is built into many government literacy policies, with severe consequences for schools and districts that fail to meet ever-increasing performance levels. The key question this book addresses is whose knowledge is considered in framing...

    To Be Published September 23rd 2013 by Routledge

  6. Write Out of the Classroom

    How to use the 'real' world to inspire and create amazing writing

    By Colin Macfarlane

    Write Out of the Classroom is a ground-breaking, highly practical book which provides teachers and creative writing tutors with great ways of tapping into the huge inspirational and educational potential of the richly diverse world beyond the classroom walls. Effective learning occurs when the...

    To Be Published October 9th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Educating Learners with Down Syndrome

    Research, theory and practice with children and adolescents

    Edited by Rhonda Faragher, Barbara Clarke

    For individuals with Down syndrome, the extent of the effect of intellectual disability depends largely on the degree of provision of appropriate support and intervention. In Educating Learners with Down Syndrome, editors Rhonda Faragher and Barbara Clarke have brought together a number of expert...

    To Be Published October 9th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Reclaiming Writing

    Composing Spaces for Identities, Relationships, and Actions

    Edited by Richard J. Meyer, Kathryn F. Whitmore

    With passion, clarity, and rich examples, Reclaiming Writing is dedicated to reawakening the journeys that writers take as they make sense of, think about, and speak back to their worlds in this era of high-stakes testing and mandated curricula. Classrooms and out-of-school settings are described...

    To Be Published October 21st 2013 by Routledge

  9. Spelling for Life

    Uncovering the simplicity and science of spelling

    By Lyn Stone

    There is a common misconception in educational circles that spelling and mathematics are opposites. A familiar cry of the struggling speller, "I can’t spell because I have a maths brain." Actually spelling is mathematical. Spelling is the manipulation of symbols according to agreed-upon patterns...

    To Be Published October 22nd 2013 by Routledge

  10. Better than Best Practice

    Developing Teaching and Learning through Dialogue

    By Adam Lefstein, Julia Snell

    Better than Best Practice offers a new way of thinking about classroom practice, professional development, and improving teaching and learning. This companion book and website together offer a selection of rich and realistic video-based case studies, context and narrative, step-by-step guidance...

    To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge