English & Literacy/Language Arts Books

New and Published Books – Page 4

31. Toward Defining and Improving Quality in Adult Basic Education

    Issues and Challenges

    Edited by Alisa Belzer

    Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
32. Handbook of Family Literacy

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Barbara H. Wasik

    The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book. It documents the need for literacy education for children and parents, describes early literacy and math development within the home, analyses interventions in home...

    Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
33. New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders

    Edited by Bronwyn Williams, Amy A. Zenger

    How do students’ online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries including Australia, Lebanon, Nepal, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey, and the United States illustrate and analyze how literacy practices that are mediated through and...

    Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
34. Multimodal Composing in Classrooms

    Learning and Teaching for the Digital World

    Edited by Suzanne M. Miller, Mary B. McVee

    Taking a close look at multimodal composing as an essential new literacy in schools, this volume draws from contextualized case studies across educational contexts to provide detailed portraits of teachers and students at work in classrooms. Authors elaborate key issues in transforming classrooms...

    Published April 3rd 2012 by Routledge
35. Creativity and Learning in Secondary English

    Teaching for a creative classroom

    By Andrew McCallum

    Creativity in secondary English lessons today is a democratically conceived quality that all pupils are expected to achieve and a resource on which all are entitled to draw. But what exactly is creativity? And how does it relate to English? Creativity and Learning in Secondary English answers these...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
36. Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents' Lives

    Bridging the Everyday/Academic Divide, Third Edition

    Edited by Donna E. Alvermann, Kathleen A. Hinchman

    Like previous editions, the third edition of Reconceptualizing the Literacies in Adolescents’ Lives invites middle- and high-school educators to move toward a broad, generative view of adolescent literacies. Recognizing that digital media, social networking phenomena are now central in adolescents’...

    Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
37. Beginning Writers in the Zone of Proximal Development

    By Elizabeth Petrick-Steward

    How do young children bridge the gap between "writing" a story with pictures and writing with words? How children learn to use written words to tell a story is a topic important to both cognitive development and early literacy instruction. Using the theoretical framework developed by Vygotsky, the...

    Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
38. Teaching Poetry

    Reading and responding to poetry in the secondary classroom

    By Amanda Naylor, Audrey Wood

    Teaching Poetry is an indispensible source of guidance, confidence and ideas for all those new to the secondary English classroom. Written by experienced teachers who have worked with the many secondary pupils who ‘don’t get’ poetry, this friendly guide will help you support pupils as they access,...

    Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
39. Reading in Asian Languages

    Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

    Edited by Kenneth S. Goodman, Shaomei Wang, Mieko Iventosch, Yetta M. Goodman

    Reading in Asian Languages is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a...

    Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge
40. Psychology of Reading

    2nd Edition

    By Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek, Jane Ashby, Charles Clifton Jr.

    Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been learned about the reading process from research by cognitive psychologists. This book summarizes that important...

    Published November 8th 2011 by Psychology Press