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“meredith decosta”

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  • Real World Writing for Secondary Students

    Teaching the College Admission Essay and Other Gate-Openers for Higher Education

    by Jessica Singer Early, Meredith DeCosta ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    One of the most important ways to scaffold a successful transition from high school to college is to teach real-world, gate-opening writing genres, such as college admission essays. This book describes a writing workshop for ethnically and linguistically diverse high school students, where students receive instruction on specific genre features of the college admission essay. The authors present ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Autoethnography as Method

    by Heewon Chang ...
    Series series Developing Qualitative Inquiry
    This methods book will guide the reader through the process of conducting and producing an autoethnographic study through the understanding of self, other, and culture. Readers will be encouraged to follow hands-on, though not prescriptive, steps in data collection, analysis, and interpretation with self-reflective prewriting exercises and self-narrative writing exercises to produce their own ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Literacy Tools in the Classroom

    Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12

    by Richard Beach, Gerald Campano, Melissa Borgmann, Brian Edmiston ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video encourage critical inquiry in the 512 classroom. This dynamic text will inspire teachers to:Work together to ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Multicultural Teaching in the Early Childhood Classroom

    Approaches, Strategies, and Tools, Preschool2nd Grade

    by Mariana Souto-Manning ...
    Series series Early Childhood Education Series
    This unique book features an array of approaches, strategies, and tools for teaching multiculturally in the early years. The teachers and classrooms portrayed here provide young children with rich educational experiences that empower them to understand themselves in relation to others. You will see how amazing teachers engage in culturally responsive teaching that fosters educational equity while ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Inspiring Dialogue

    Talking to Learn in the English Classroom

    by Mary M. Juzwik, Carlin Borsheim-Black, Samantha Caughlan, Anne Heintz ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Inspiring Dialogue helps new English teachers make dialogic teaching practices a central part of their development as teachers, while also supporting veteran teachers who would like new ideas for inspiring talk in their classrooms. Chapter by chapter, the book follows novice teachers as they build a repertoire of practices for planning for, carrying out, and assessing their efforts at dialogic ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Reading, Writing, and Talk

    Inclusive Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners, K2

    by Mariana Souto-Manning, Jessica Martell ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    This book introduces a variety of inclusive strategies for teaching language and literacy in kindergarten through 2nd grade. Readers are invited into classrooms where racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse children’s experiences, unique strengths, and expertise are supported and valued. Chapters focus on oral language, reading, and writing development and include diverse possibilities ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Teachers Doing Research

    The Power of Action Through Inquiry

    Edited by Gail E. Burnaford ...
    This popular text describes the processes of doing teacher action research. But it is much more than a dry presentation of "methods." Filled with examples of teacher action research projects, provided by teachers themselves, the book places teachers at the heart of the action research process. Teachers' own writing about their work and research questions is featured in 11 examples of teacher ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Everyday Talk

    Building and Reflecting Identities

    by Karen Tracy, Phd, Jessica S. Robles ...
    This engaging text explores how everyday talk--the ordinary kinds of communicating that people do in schools, workplaces, and among family and friends--expresses who we are and who we want to be. The authors interweave rhetorical and cultural perspectives on the "little stuff" of conversation: what we say and how we say it, the terms used to refer to others, the content and style of stories we ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Bilingual Revolution: The Future of Education is in Two Languages

    The Bilingual Revolution, #1

    by Fabrice Jaumont ...
    Series Book 1 - The Bilingual Revolution
    Conceived as a practical, accessible "how to" guide, The Bilingual Revolution is the story of a movement to bring dual language education to public schools told through the eyes of founding parents and educators. These pioneering mothers, fathers, teachers, and principals share the belief that bilingual education can positively transform a child, a school, a community, and even a country.Although ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Critical Literacy Across the K-6 Curriculum

    by Vivian Maria Vasquez ...
    Through stories from kindergarten to sixth grade classrooms where students and teachers have attempted to put a critical edge on their teaching, this book shows critical literacy in action across the curriculum. Readers see students and teachers together using critical literacy discourse to frame conversations in ways that engage students in examining the meaning of the texts they read and acting ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Intermediality

    Teachers' Handbook Of Critical Media Literacy

    by Ladislaus Semali, Ann Watts Pailliotet ...
    With the ever-growing proliferation of electronic and other popular media, the complexity of relationship between what students see and hear, what they believe and how they interact with one another underscores now, more than ever, the need for across-the-curriculum teaching of critical thinking, critical reading, and critical viewing skills. The emerging consensus is that teaching critical ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Negotiating Critical Literacies with Teachers

    Theoretical Foundations and Pedagogical Resources for Pre-Service and In-Service Contexts

    by Vivian Maria Vasquez, Stacie L. Tate, Jerome C. Harste ...
    How can teacher educators engage pre-service and in-service teachers in learning about and framing their teaching from a critical literacy perspective? What does this mean? Why is it important? To address these questions, this book offers a theoretical framework and detailed examples, pedagogical resources, and insights into ways to build critical literacies with teachers in and out of school. Its ... Read more

    $59.99 USD