Böcker i Language and Literacy Series-serien

This practical resource will help K-5 teachers incorporate digitally supported disciplinary literacy practices into their classroom instruction. The authors present Planning for Elementary Digitally-supported Disciplinary Literacy - a framework that introduces an approach for integrating disciplinary literacy into instruction using digital tools.

This practical resource will help K-6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners. Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals.

Brings together respected scholars to examine the intersections of race, justice, and activism in direct relation to the teaching and learning of critical literacy. The text includes examples of student activism from across the United States, questions to help guide discussions, and artifacts from students and educators.

Presents an examination of the development, evolution, and current realities of educating emergent bilinguals in US classrooms. The text begins by showing how the authors evolved from monolingual language educators to translanguaging educators and ends with concrete takeaways for successfully using an inclusive translanguaging approach.

The essays in this book not only provide an overview of the fundamental ideas of the New London Group and their importance across literacy, communications, and media studies but also explore how they have been adapted by today's educators to better prepare students for a rapidly changing, globalized world.

This work offers a new approach to understanding how young children in early and elementary grades communicate their knowledge of the world and the ways in which that kind of understanding can transform the educative process.

In this inspirational book, LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning with their attempt to define love.

Many educators feel caught between mandates to meet literacy standards and the desire to respond to individual students' interests, skills, and challenges. This book illustrates how a dialogical approach to practice will enable teachers to meet the needs of today's diverse student population within a standardized curriculum.

Uses literacy basics to suggest concrete approaches that leaders and coaches can use to help teachers improve their instruction with culturally and linguistically diverse students. Based on firsthand experiences, research, and a school-university-community collaborative, this practical book homes in on what literacy leaders need to do in today's rapidly changing schools.

Provides teachers with a road map for designing a comprehensive writing curriculum. The authors zero in on several big ideas that lead to and support effective practices in writing instruction, such as integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening; teaching writing as a process; extending the range of students' writing; spiraling and scaffolding a writing curriculum; and collaborating.

Investigates how the lives and literacies of youth in New York City's historic Harlem are affected by public attempts to gentrify the community. This book draws connections between race, place, and students' literate identities through interviews with youth, teachers, longtime Black residents, and their new White neighbors.

Drawing on examples from K-5 classrooms, the authors make clear what LGBTQ-inclusive literacy teaching can look like in practice, including what teachers might say and how students might respond. The text also provides readers with opportunities to consider these new approaches with respect to traditional literacy instruction.

This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, "You Gotta BE the Book" continues to help teachers meet new challenges.