This book examines how working-class high school students' identity construction is continually mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. Specifically, it addresses how responding to cultural differences portrayed in multicultural literature can serve to challenge adolescents' allegiances to status quo discourses and cultural models, and how teachers not only can rouse students to clarify and change their value stances related to race, class, and gender, but also provide support for and validation of...

This resource offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary English instruction. The authors provide strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media.

The Internet offers enormous possibilities for teachers who include discussion of media arts in their courses. However, without expert guidance, it is difficult for instructors to know how to use the Web most effectively. Here, at last, is the resource that teachers need.

Examines how working-class high school students' identity construction is mediated by discourses and cultural practices operating in their classroom, school, family, sports, community, and workplace worlds. This book contributes to understanding the role of institutions in shaping adolescents' lives.

Examines how people develop their reading and writing skills during adolescence and adulthood. This collection is based on the premise that four basic stances (orientations) underlie the discourse practices: social, textual, institutional, and field. These four stances form the organizing rubric for

Since 1996, Elspeth Thompson has chronicled the successes and disasters that beset her tiny London garden and her allotment in a regular column in the Sunday Telegraph. In this second instalment of columns, Elspeth charts the trials of gardening in the country at weekends, having taken on a potter's cottage in Winchelsea, East Sussex, the development of her allotment and the onggoing joys of ther itny back garden in Brixton.

This book reviews the shifting conceptions of writing and revision, noting the ways in which views of knowledge and knowing shape teaching and research. Fitzgerald, as a reading and writing researcher, recognizes that how we revise is shaped by how we read and respond to our unfolding texts. She argues that how we write and read is ultimately shaped by how we know-that is, how we seek to make sense of the world. How and why do we revise when we write? How do we differ in the extent or level of revisions due to differences in our purpose, mode of writing, perceptions of audience, or phase of...

How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students' disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.

Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum

• presents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their value
• features methods for and apps related to planning instruction and assessing student learning
• identifies favorite apps...