This book introduces pre-service and in-service teachers to the most current theories and methods for teaching reading to children in elementary schools. The methods presented are based on scientific findings that have been tested in many classrooms.
This book introduces pre-service and in-service teachers to the most current theories and methods for teaching reading to children in elementary schoo...
Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K-9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. Cutting-edge theory and research is interwoven with detailed case studies that bring to life the complexities of teaching in today's multicultural and multilingual classroom. Topics covered include: *How and why culture matters in literacy instruction *Drawing on students' multiple literacies in the classroom *Motivating and...
Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide mor...
Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning and achievement for diverse students in various settings. Attending simultaneously to topics around two overarching and interrelated themes-languages and language variations, and cultures, ethnicities, and identities-the chapter authors examine the roles that multiliteracies play in students'...
Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book e...
Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this book examines literacy teaching and learning as embedded in cultural, linguistic, racial, sexual, and gendered contexts and explores ways to foster learning and achievement for diverse students in various settings. Attending simultaneously to topics around two overarching and interrelated themes-languages and language variations, and cultures, ethnicities, and identities-the chapter authors examine the roles that multiliteracies play in students'...
Using a multiliteracies theoretical framework highlighting social diversity and multimodality as central in the process of meaning making, this boo...
