Literacy books

This innovative book revives the essay form in academic writing, opening pedagogical space for articulating the...  Read More >>

Takes a fascinating look at how literacy served to unite Cherokees during a critical moment in their national history,...  Read More >>

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This book examines language and identity among White American middle and upper-middle class youth who affiliate...  Read More >>

This study offers a new view on the development of an urban culture of writing in one of the major cities of late...  Read More >>

Explains research on writing and text production, focusing on theory and methodology, authors, modes/media, genres,...  Read More >>

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket,...  Read More >>

Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the...  Read More >>

From the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia,...  Read More >>

How do digital media change the way we read aloud, a key cultural tool for reading socialization? This qualitative...  Read More >>

A complete road map for word knowledge instruction in PreK-2, this book focuses on developing the word recognition...  Read More >>

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Twins Max and Laura spend an exciting summer in a small village near Stonehenge. A mysterious symbol, their uncle's...  Read More >>

This book provides a synopsis of recently published empirical research into the acquisition of reading and writing...  Read More >>

Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they...  Read More >>

Today’s teachers need up-to-the-minute information to help their students make sense of the multimodal texts they...  Read More >>

Despite a vast amount of study, literacy is still a very confused topic, which requires the integration of findings...  Read More >>

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This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking...  Read More >>

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This introduction to child literacy development looks at the subject from an international perspective and is appropriate...  Read More >>

This examination of the literary effectiveness of young adult literature from a critical, research-oriented perspective...  Read More >>

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