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  • A Magic Island Silence

    by Thomas Bean ...
    Nash MacKay sets out to find David Kuhio's killer. David is active in Save Our Surf and a university student, murdered on the beach at San Onofre. Nash encounters violent characters trying to stop his search as it spans California and Hawai'i to find out who killed David and why. Along the way, Nash surfs, befriends bikers, and a new girl friend while seeking David's killer. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self

    (Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices

    Edited by Barbara J. Guzzetti, Thomas Bean ...
    Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world is changing the literacy needs and identities of students. This book explores the dynamic range of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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    A Book of Weird and Wonderful Science Facts

    by Wendy Sadler ...
    Have you ever wondered why golf balls have dimples or why your hair goes frizzy in the rain? Scientist Wendy Sadler has the answers in her book of Weird and Wonderful facts. Broken down into user-friendly chapters like sport, going out, the great outdoors, food and drink and the downright weird, Wendy gives the scientific answers to life's intriguing questions, likeWhy toast always lands butter ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Exemplary Instruction in the Middle Grades

    Teaching That Supports Engagement and Rigorous Learning

    Edited by Diane Lapp, EdD, Barbara Moss, PhD ...
    Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning. Each chapter features an enlightening case study of a teacher whose current strategies are not supported by research; describes effective instructional alternatives, illustrated with ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words Book 5: The 5th Thousand

    by Gordon (Guoping) Feng, Mark Davies ...
    Series Book 5 - The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words
    Starting from 1990, Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) picks 20 million words of English text and speech each year, and now contains more than 520 million words. Based on COCA, this series of The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words are grouped in 1,000 words and lead ultimately to 52,000 most frequently-used English words.These words can be divided into 6 larger groups:4,000 Elementary ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Linguistically Appropriate Practice

    A Guide for Working with Young Immigrant Children

    by Roma Chumak-Horbatsch ...
    This path-breaking book provides a convincing argument for the importance of children's home languages and the benefits of dual- and multi-language learning. A new classroom practice known as Linguistically Appropriate Practice (LAP) offers guidance for those working with young children who arrive in childcare centres and schools with little or no proficiency in the classroom language. ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Youth, Critical Literacies, and Civic Engagement

    Arts, Media, and Literacy in the Lives of Adolescents

    by Theresa Rogers, Kari-Lynn Winters, Mia Perry, Anne-Marie LaMonde ...
    Through stories of youth using their many voices in and out of school to explore and express their ideas about the world, this book brings to the forefront the reality of lived literacy experiences of adolescents in today’s culture in which literacy practices reflect important cultural messages about the interplay of local and global civic engagement. The focus is on three areas of youth civic ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words Book 6: The 6th Thousand

    by Gordon (Guoping) Feng, Mark Davies ...
    Series Book 6 - The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words
    Starting from 1990, Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) picks 20 million words of English text and speech each year, and now contains more than 520 million words. Based on COCA, this series of The Graded Wordbook of 52,000 Words are grouped in 1,000 words and lead ultimately to 52,000 most frequently-used English words.These words can be divided into 6 larger groups:4,000 Elementary ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years

    Psychology, pedagogy and practice

    by Hui Li ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Language Education
    The Chinese language is now used by a quarter of the world’s population and is increasingly popular as a second language. Teaching Chinese Literacy in the Early Years comprehensively investigates the psychology, pedagogy and practice involved in teaching Chinese literacy to young children.This text not only explores the psycholinguistic and neuropsychological processing involved in learning ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Motivating Reading Comprehension

    Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction

    by Allan Wigfield ...
    Concept Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) is a unique, classroom-tested model of reading instruction that breaks new ground by explicitly showing how content knowledge, reading strategies, and motivational support all merge in successful reading instruction. A theoretical perspective (engagement in reading) frames the book and provides a backdrop for its linkage between hands-on science ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • What's New in Literacy Teaching?

    Weaving Together Time-Honored Practices with New Research

    Edited by Karen Wood, Jeanne Paratore, Brian Kissel, Rachel McCormack ...
    Reissue of ILA bestseller. In this e-book, well-known literacy scholars share practical ways to engage and challenge today’s students. Key topics covered include text complexity, vocabulary instruction, reading interventions, digital tools, critical literacy, and self-regulation. User-friendly chapters include enhanced content: classroom scenarios, transcripts, photo essays, links to videos, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Literate Lives in the Information Age

    Narratives of Literacy From the United States

    by Cynthia L. Selfe, Gail E. Hawisher ...
    This book chronicles the development of electronic literacies through the stories of individuals with varying backgrounds and skills. Authors Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail E. Hawisher employ these stories to begin tracing technological literacy as it has emerged over the last few decades within the United States. They selected 20 case studies from the corpus of more than 350 people who participated in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD