Books in the Language and Literacy Series series

This practical resource will help K-6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners. Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals.

How can educators understand writing assessment as and with technology in the 21st-century classroom? Thisl contends that new technologies are neither the problem nor the solution. Instead, educators need to tap into digital resources only inasmuch as they promote writing and its assessment as rhetorical with authentic purposes, audiences, and contexts.

Argues that literature fosters ways of thinking that go far beyond understanding the conventions of genre and text. This revision of Judith Langer's classic bestseller builds on more than 15 years of research and development projects in elementary, middle, and high schools, in inner-city as well as suburban and rural communities.

This book looks at how artifacts (everyday objects) access the daily, sensory world in which students live. Exploring how artifacts can generate literacy learning, the book shows teachers how to use a family photo, heirloom, or recipe to tell intergenerat

Presents a comprehensive, theoretically grounded model of children's understanding of picture storybooks. This volume includes examples of children's responses and how teachers scaffold the children's interpretation of stories. It is suitable for contemporary young children with various ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Brings together respected scholars to examine the intersections of race, justice, and activism in direct relation to the teaching and learning of critical literacy. The text includes examples of student activism from across the United States, questions to help guide discussions, and artifacts from students and educators.

Reviews core elements of ELA instruction - response to literature, classroom discussion, research, and digital literacy - and demonstrates how to adapt these activities to foster critical thinking and empathetic perspectives among students.

Presents an examination of the development, evolution, and current realities of educating emergent bilinguals in US classrooms. The text begins by showing how the authors evolved from monolingual language educators to translanguaging educators and ends with concrete takeaways for successfully using an inclusive translanguaging approach.

Drawing on examples from K-5 classrooms, the authors make clear what LGBTQ-inclusive literacy teaching can look like in practice, including what teachers might say and how students might respond. The text also provides readers with opportunities to consider these new approaches with respect to traditional literacy instruction.

Filled with day-to-day practices, this book will help elementary school teachers tackle the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Readers will learn about culturally relevant pedagogies as young children learn literacy and a critical stance through music, oral histories, name stories, intergenerational texts, and heritage lessons.

Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favourite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming schools and students' futures.

Presents a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction from kindergarten through high school. This practical book presents a research-based program that includes four parts: language experiences, teaching individual words, teaching word learning strategies, and fostering word consciousness.

This is a textbook about the beliefs, issues, and practices at the forefront of literacy education - from language, ethnic, and academic diversity, to social construction of meaning and knowledge. Commentaries by literacy scholars provide an expanded perspective on the many issues raised.