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...
When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open-ended art experiences for young children. The author looks at the work of a variety of artists and offers guidance for using these artworks as taking-off points for conversations and creativity with a range of materials. She demonstrates that using fine art reproductions in the early childhood curriculum allows children to construct their own meanings, teaches diversity, fosters thinking skills, and encourages...
When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedo...
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...
Cynthia H. Brock Virginia J. Goatley Taffy E. Raphael
This accessible book will help elementary school teachers improve literacy instruction inside or outside the Common Core environment. The authors address teachers instructional needs by introducing key concepts from current trends in literacy educationfrom high-level standards to the use of 21st-century literacies. Readers then follow teachers as they successfully implement the curriculum they developed to promote high-level thinking and engagement with disciplinary content. The text focuses on three disciplinary literacy units of instruction: a science unit in a 2nd-grade classroom, a social...
This accessible book will help elementary school teachers improve literacy instruction inside or outside the Common Core environment. The authors addr...
