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This text recognizes that there is no simple way to develop literacy. It begins with the central premise that literacy is not simply a cognitive process, but a set of social practices used in socio-cultural contexts.

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Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists.

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Library media specialists, Pre-K2 classroom teachers, and even parents can use these tested activities with confidence. This thorough, well-organized book shows you how! Presents picture book summaries, reading lists, and fun activities detailing lesson time, standards, and skills addressed. Appropriate for classroom, library, or home.

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This volume includes essays by writing specialists who are concerned with their own failure to improve their students' writing skills.

These contributors examine why entering college students still write poorly and why our various attempts to improve such poor writing skills have largely failed.

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Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. Most of the essays are based on primary research and highlight important concerns about the political nature of literacy.

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Links fields such as linguistics, anthropology, sociolinguistics and education to illustrate how the problem of literacy is embedded in a social and cultural context. Most of the essays are based on primary research and highlight important concerns about the political nature of literacy.

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Bring out the poet in your students! Poetry is a wonderful catalyst for helping students understand and appreciate written and oral language. And this book includes a variety of activities and poetry types to reinforce language elements such as the alphabet, syllables, words, and phrases.

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Finally, a book to help educators promote sure-fire reading pleasers to boy readers in grades 3-12!

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Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood.

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African American arts, churches, benevolent societies, newspapers, literacy societies, and formal and informal schools supported literacy growth, and literacy growth in turn gave rise to national and international African American literacy traditions.

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Technology-mediated communication cannot help but inform our literacies. This book presents a reconceptualization of the role of language and pedagogy in the new media age. It focuses on the notion of 'transformation' - a change in discourse practices, meaning making, technology and, as a result, literacy acquisition itself.

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Technology-mediated communication cannot help but inform our literacies. This book is a reconceptualization of the role of language and pedagogy in what Kress (2003) has termed the new media age. It deals with the notion of 'transformation' - a change in discourse practices, meaning making, technology and, as a result, literacy acquisition itself.

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Designed around the new IRA/NCTE Standards, (reading, writing, representing, viewing, speaking, and listening) these stimulating activities applicable to a variety of novels create opportunities for students to develop their skills as readers, writers, and speakers.

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Please Teach Me To Read, Somebody, The 500 Most Used Words In English WORKBOOK, is designed as a tool for parents and teachers to help struggling readers achieve a greater level of reading fluency. Teaching guidelines are included in the Workbook.

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Organised like the high school curriculum you wish you'd had, this book takes students from Homeroom to Phys Ed, History, Science, Detention, and more. It provides pop quiz questions and interactive, online extra credit opportunities to fully engage readers.