English & Literacy/Language Arts

Examining the forces that affect English education in schools, this timely book counters with a strong argument for the importance of continuing to teach literature in middle and secondary classrooms...

This new edition situates the book and its case study within current conversations about the contextualized nature of disability, exploring the role of situated literacies, classroom interactions, and social stereotypes in shaping students’ identification as "disabled."..

This new edition situates the book and its case study within current conversations about the contextualized nature of disability, exploring the role of situated literacies, classroom interactions, and social stereotypes in shaping students’ identification as "disabled."..

Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy instruction across the content areas for junior/middle school and high scho..

Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy instruction across the content areas for junior/middle school and high scho..

The professional learning framework this book presents—a 4x4 metalinguistic toolkit informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and international educational research on academic and disciplinary literacies—shows and explains how teachers have applied specific with middle years students across..

This book explores the dynamic range of literacy practices in and out of school that are reconstructing youth gender identities in both empowering and disempowering ways and the implications for local literacy classrooms...

Originally published in 1988. Through case descriptions of literacy programs situated in formal and informal settings, this book draws attention to the ways that developmental appropriateness and engaging literacy instruction can assist youth in reaching their full potential as readers and writers...

This book provides an insight into strategies that are necessary for scaling and sustaining an effective innovation, using the example of Reading Recovery, which has scaled and sustained itself even in the face of constant threats to its implementation. The chapters in this book were first published..

Research has shown that students who can adapt and use Standard American English for academic purposes demonstrate significantly better test scores than their less adaptable peers. This volume discusses dialectal code-switching and stresses the benefits and importance of African American students be..

This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American centred theory of rhetoric and composition...

This comprehensive bibliography provides more than 1600 references to publications from the past half century on education in relation to African American Vernacular English, English-based pidgins and creoles and other vernacula Englishes, with accompanying abstracts for many...