By Different Paths to Common Outcomes by Stenhouse Publishers $11.00
Visual Culture by Polity $29.95
Visual Culture is an introductory textbook book on visual literacy, exploring how meaning is both made and transmitted in an increasingly visual world. It is designed to introduce students to the analysis of all kinds of visual texts, whether drawings, paintings, photographs, films, advertisements, television programmes or new media forms. The book is illustrated with copious examples that range...
Content Area Reading by Harpercollins College Div $70.00
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, Content Area Reading remains the market-leading text in content literacy and maintains the authors' original objective-to offer an ambitious, coherent, and workable exploration of content literacy. With the underlying belief that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, this respected text is designed to be an active learning tool, complete with...
Effective Reading in a Changing World by Prentice Hall College Div $34.80
Using an integrated approach, this work seeks to help adult readers of varying backgrounds to strengthen their cognitive abilities, view reading as a positive experience, develop the successful strategies needed for successful, lifelong reading, and explore contemporary controversial issues. It combines reading selections with in-depth practice activities, and questions for discussion and journal...
The Ethnography of Reading by Jonathan Boyarin $26.95
Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now finally receives its due in these groundbreaking essays by a distinguished group of anthropologists and literary scholars.The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of "literacy" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written...
Power Tools for Literacy: Accelerated Phonics, Syllables, and Morphemes by Lenore A. Hirsch $39.00
Designed for ages 9-21, "Power Tools for Literacy" targets the problems of struggling readers, students with learning disabilities or dyslexia, and English learners. The 300 copy-ready lessons in this program foster a systematic understanding of the structure of English words. Using multi-sensory principles, "Power Tools for Literacy" teaches decoding strategies, syllabication, spelling, and...
Early Literacy Assessments and Teaching Strategies by Kendall Hunt Pub Co $28.95
A LETTERation Beginning Sounds and Rhymes by Front Line Education $8.20
This educational flip-book is the ultimate time saver for educators and parents teaching phonemic awareness skills. Excellent for whole groups, small groups, or individual instruction. Provides rhyming word lists for both short and long vowels, plus beginning sound word lists for consonants and vowels. Students generate rhyming words or words that begin with the same sound in response to...
ABC: The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind by North Point Press $18.95
An intense examination of the effects of technology on literacy and language. The authors argue that there is a phenomenon transforming modern culture--language is becoming part of a technology of "information systems" with an emphasis on control, rather than human exchange. As a result, all language is becoming debased.