Books in the Language and Literacy series

In this book, Ed Madison provides specific strategies to help teachers use journalistic learning to achieve positive outcomes that engage students in new ways. Centred on research and writing projects that will yield publishable student writing, chapters demonstrate how this approach works across contexts and benefits a broad range of students from diverse backgrounds.

Focuses on the contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, the author helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population.

Featuring three new chapters and extensive updating, the second edition of this groundbreaking book describes current research that confirms the importance of key elements in the authors' summer reading model that are essential to ensure gains for low-income, low-achieving students.