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An engaging, thematic journey that sparks academic curiosity. Read to Succeed: A Thematic Approach to Academic Reading engages students in academic reading, and builds background knowledge through its thematic organization around nine academic disciplines. David Rothman and Jilani Warsi offer an abundance of readings, drawn from a variety of sources -- everything from textbooks to blogs -- giving students multiple opportunities to build reading skills...
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"For children from low-resource backgrounds, a literacy-rich pre-school experience with a skilled and engaged teacher can make all the difference. Now schools can ensure effective early literacy instruction with this field-tested, research-based curriculum for children 3 to 5 years of age. These 41 one-week lessons-each built around a theme with associated vocabulary lists and fun activities-are just what teachers need to enhance children's phonemic...
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Children's speaking, reading, and writing skills are closely connected, and this engaging text guides preservice and practicing teachers in choosing instructional strategies that promote the integrated development of these skills. The authors explore the foundations of language in the developing brain and show how language acquisition in early childhood influences later literacy and language use. Chapters cover phonological skills, vocabulary, grammatical...
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Offers an alternative framework for middle and secondary school English instruction. The authors provide concrete strategies for engaging students in critical inquiry projects about the social worlds they inhabit or about those portrayed in literature and the media. Includes examples of students using various literacy tools (language, genres, narratives, signs, multimedia, and drama).
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A psychology professor specializing in the cognitive and neurological bases of language and reading discusses why children and adults have been incorrectly taught how to read and offers suggestions on how to vastly improve this vital life skill.
Over half of our children read at a basic level and few become highly proficient. Many American children and adults are not functionally literate, with serious consequences. Poor readers are more likely to...
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This program provides teachers, administrators, parents, and university students with a clear and informative introduction to whole language -- an innovative teaching movement that is generating much enthusiasm in the educational community. The program goes into the classroom to see whole language in action and speaks to teachers who employ whole language methods, and to students who are benefiting from them, to find out what this approach to teaching...
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