"Hebert is a literacy luminary. In this book, she provides the inspiration, moral purpose, and practical strategies that will help teachers across the country develop a generation of lifelong readers, writers, and thinkers."—Gaeton F. Stella, SuperintendentWoodbridge School District, CTCatch EVERY falling reader by giving students the confidence and skills to soar!Well-known consultant and trainer Connie R. Hebert offers read...

How parents and educators can teach kids to love reading in the digital ageEveryone agrees that reading is important, but kids today tend to lose interest in reading before adolescence. In Raising Kids Who Read, bestselling author and psychology professor Daniel T. Willingham explains this phenomenon and provides practical solutions for engendering a love of reading that lasts into adulthood. Like Willingham's much-lauded previous work, Why Don't Stude...

Compelling and highly engaging, this text shows teachers at all levels how to do critical literacy in the classroom and provides models for practice that can be adapted to any context. Integrating social theory and classroom practice, it brings critical literacy to life as a socio-cultural orientation to the teaching of literacy that takes seriously the relationship between language and power and orients readers to the social effects of texts. Students and teachers are drawn into the key q...

Introducing I Can Do It Myself Phonics Reading Program With all the Phonics and Reading Programs available why do we at I Can Do It Myself have the audacity to put out yet another one? The answer to that lies with the I Can Do It program itself. It brings to you a completely different outlook and an utterly fresh approach to instructing a child in Phonics and Reading. I Can Do It is like no other Phonics Reading Program available. I Can Do It Myself is: Incorporated with many innovative pr...

This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition. An introduction, designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, is followed by chapters addressing teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies"; empirical research; longitudinal studies; case studies; ethnography; teac...

This book examines the social codes and practices that shape the literary culture of a combined fifth/sixth-grade classroom. It considers how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community affect four classroom practices involving literature--read aloud, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, and independent reading--with a focus on how these practices are shaped by discourse and rituals within the classroom and by social codes and cultural norms ...

Creative Curriculum, teaching across the curriculum using a story, is a flexible series of resources aimed at encouraging a more creative and cross-curricular approach to teaching.By putting a story at the centre of learning a stimulus is provided to a range of learning opportunities, thus increasing children's understanding and adding fun and enjoyment to the lesson. Teachers are provided with practical ways to incorporate the story in a range of cross-curricular activities.How High is th...

Exam Board: ISEBLevel: KS2Subject: EnglishFirst Teaching: September 2012First Exam: June 2013This is a perfect resource for pupils working towards Common Entrance and other independent school entrance exams at 13+.- Endorsed by the Independent Schools Examination Board (ISEB)- Mapped precisely to the ISEB syllabus- Places firm emphasis on spelling, ...

What are the ways in which young children learn to communicate? Collating their extensive experience of language and literacy in the early years, the contributors explore key aspects of this topic, linking practical ideas for early years settings and classrooms to relevant theory and research.This second edition is updated to take into account important developments in research, policy and practice, and now covers the 0-8 age range. It also addresses developments in new media and t...

Little children cannot be stuck with just learning letters. At one point or another, they need to learn to read. The introduction of sight words makes this task so much easier. In this book, sight words are not only taught through words, they are also linked to pictures to make learning even more effective. Grab a copy of this book today!

The influential first volume of the Handbook of Reading Research waspublished in 1984. This classic work, an essential resource for researchers, students, and professionals across the field of reading and literacy education, is now available once again in on-line and print-on-demand versions.

Exemplifying what it advocates, this book is an innovative attempt to retrieve the essay form from its degenerate condition in academic writing. Its purpose is to create pedagogical space in which the inner struggle of ‘lived experience’ can articulate itself in the first person. Working through essays, the modern, ‘post-secular’ self can guide, understand, and express its own transformation. This is not merely a book about writing methods: it has a sharp existential edge.Beginning...