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  1. The Routledge International Handbook of English, Language and Literacy Teaching

    Edited by Dominic Wyse, Richard Andrews, James Hoffman

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

    Edited by three authorities in the field, this Handbook presents contributions from experts across the world who report the cutting-edge of international research. It is ground-breaking in its holistic, evidence-informed account that aims to synthesize key messages for policy and practice in...

    Published February 11th 2010 by Routledge

  2. Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Education

    Language, Literacy and Culture

    Edited by Marcia Farr, Lisya Seloni, Juyoung Song

    In recent decades, the linguistic and cultural diversity of school populations in the United States and other industrialized countries has rapidly increased along with globalization processes. At the same time, schooling as it is currently constituted continues to be ineffective for large numbers...

    Published November 24th 2009 by Routledge

  3. Multiliteracies in Motion

    Current Theory and Practice

    Edited by David R. Cole, Darren Lee Pullen

    The realities of new technological and social conditions since the 1990s demand a new approach to literacy teaching. Looking onward from the original statement of aims of the multiliteracies movement in 1996, this volume brings together top-quality scholarship and research that has embraced the...

    Published November 9th 2009 by Routledge

  4. Literacy in Times of Crisis

    Practices and Perspectives

    Edited by Laurie MacGillivray

    "Fresh, provocative, timely, and important, this volume extends the field of sociocultural literacies in new directions."--Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California, Los Angeles On the frontline of critical issues in education today, this book covers new ground for teachers and teacher...

    Published November 9th 2009 by Routledge

  5. Official Portraits and Unofficial Counterportraits of At Risk Students

    Writing Spaces in Hard Times

    By Richard J. Meyer

    This book chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers - children of gang members, drug users, poor people, and non-documented and documented immigrants - in a rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with...

    Published October 29th 2009 by Routledge

  6. Academic Language/Literacy Strategies for Adolescents

    A "How-To" Manual for Educators

    By Debra L. Cook Hirai, Irene Borrego, Emilio Garza, Carl Kloock

    Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school...

    Published October 27th 2009 by Routledge

  7. Literacy and Power

    By Hilary Janks

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible. Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education - domination (power), access, diversity, design - foreground one over the other, but are...

    Published October 1st 2009 by Routledge

  8. Linking Reading Assessment to Instruction

    An Application Worktext for Elementary Classroom Teachers, 5th Edition

    By Arleen Shearer Mariotti, Susan P. Homan

    Now in its Fifth Edition, this text applies current theory to classroom practice by providing, in each chapter, a brief explanation of major concepts followed by guided practical experience in administering, scoring, and interpreting reading assessment techniques. The Fifth Edition is revised and...

    Published September 20th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Science Homework for Key Stage 2

    Activity-based Learning

    By Colin Forster, Vicki Parfitt, Andrea McGowan

    Series: Active Homework

    Science Homework for Key Stage 2 is a unique resource for busy teachers - a selection of ‘pencil-free’, hands-on activities, aligned with the National Curriculum Programmes of Study and with clear links to the topics set out in the QCA scheme of work for KS2 science, that teachers can use as...

    Published September 3rd 2009 by Routledge

  10. Language, Culture, and Teaching

    Critical Perspectives, 2nd Edition

    By Sonia Nieto

    Series: Language, Culture, and Teaching Series

    Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and...

    Published August 27th 2009 by Routledge