Full Description
Understanding how to address current trends and issues in literacy education is more important than ever, as local, state, national and international agendas are increasingly recognizing literacy as a foundation for success in all disciplines in education. To bridge that gap in understanding, this book showcases hot topics in literacy, providing teachers with research-based practices for literacy improvement.
Acknowledging that learning the languages of mathematics, science, and history is quintessential to content knowledge acquisition and dissemination, the international scholars which comprise the author line-up for this edited collection describe the evidence-based research findings from their research in K-12 schools to demonstrate how literacy success is fostered across the globe. Featuring innovative approaches to early literacy, disciplinary literacy, and digital literacy, the authors also pay attention to emerging topics like social, emotional, and cultural learning.
By offering a selection of timely and cutting edge insights into the trending topics in literacy education, this book is ideal reading for teachers across early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school years.
Contents
Chapter 1. Digital Literacies for Disciplinary Learning: Pedagogies Youth Deserve; Michael Manderino, Jill Castek
Chapter 2. Disciplinary Literacy: Exemplary Processes and Promising Practices; Christina L. Dobbs, Jacy Ippolito, Megin Charner-Laird
Chapter 3. Early Literacy: Home, School, Neighborhood; Bonnie Johnson, Yvonne Pratt-Johnson
Chapter 4. English Learners: The Quest for Linguistically Responsive Questioning: Using Knowledge of English Oral Proficiency Levels to Engage English Learners; Kouider Mokhtari, Joyce Nutta, Carine Strebel, Florin Mihai, Edwidge Crevecoeur
Chapter 5. Assessment, Instruction, and Learning: What's the Difference?; Devere Wosley
Chapter 6. Adolescent Literacy: A Historical Look at What has Worked and What is Working Today; Evan Ortlieb, Earl H. Cheek, Jr.
Chapter 7. Teacher Preparation is Hot and Should Be!; Diane Kern, Aimee Morewood, Allison Swan Dagen, Miriam Martinez, Samuel DeJulio, Janis Jarmon, Misty Sailors
Chapter 8. Sequencing Instruction in Writing Assignments to Build Purpose and Promote Student Engagement; Sue Oakes Verlaan, Wolfram Verlaan
Chapter 9. Social, Emotional, and Cultural Learning in Literacy; J. Helen Perkins, Crystal D. Cook, Casey D. Wright
Chapter 10. Re-Conceptualizing Literacy Instruction to Accelerate; Dana A. Robertson, Evelyn Ford-Connors, Susan Dougherty, Jeanne R. Paratore
Chapter 11. What's Hot in Literacy? Phonics and Phonemic Awareness; Julia B. Lindsey, Rachelle Kuehl, Heidi Anne Mesmer
