Product Description: Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities showcases innovative research at the interface of religion and multilingualism, offering an analytical focus on religion in children and adolescents’ everyday lives and experiences...read more

One of the most critical elements in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is the effective teaching of reading comprehension in the early years. This timely resource provides evidence-based practices for teachers to use as they work to meet standards associated with comprehending complex literature and informational texts. The authors offer a practical model with classroom applications that draw on the Construction-Integration (CI) model of text comprehension. Illustrating why comprehension is so important in the CCSS framework, the book distills six key principles for meeting CCSS and other high-challenge standards. Chapters show teachers how to build oral language and text comprehension skills with young readers, including selecting texts, organizing materials, scheduling time, and assessing the acquisition of knowledge. Book Features: * A practitioner-friendly model for teaching comprehension of informational and narrative texts in the early grades.* Guidance for how to create a classroom environment that supports oral language acquisition. * Instructional strategies, including teaching children to understand text structures, key details, and main ideas of a story or information text. * A standards-based series of formative comprehension assessments.

Product Description: "The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium-print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange-means that it may transfer into new times and new places." - From the Introduction In a significant and unique contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development, Margaret Mackey draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study...read more

Product Description: The group of addresses and essays by Professor A. S. Cook, of Yale, now published under the general title of The Higher Study of English, is a partial record of the author's contributions to the better teaching and study of English in the United States...read more

Product Description: This book explores children's meaning making of the books they learn to read with, especially relating to the intersections of race, gender and class. Based on research using a participative, innovative design with young children, issues of identity, belonging and classroom hierarchies are explored in complex and poignant ways by the children...read more

Product Description: Basic Level Literacy Programs for English-Speaking and Non-English-Speaking Adults is designed to provide centers with a variety of options. It describes many features of the adult basic level literacy programs held by forty-two literacy centers in thirty-four states and the District of Columbia...read more

Product Description: Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 – 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet; she published her books for children under the name of E. Nesbit.