Language Arts & Disciplines

Educators increasingly recognize the importance of disciplinary literacy for student success, beginning as early as the primary grades. This cutting-edge volume examines ways to help K-12 students develop the literacy skills and inquiry practices needed for high-level work in different academic domains. Chapters interweave...

Author: DkPublisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)Published: 02/13/2024Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsISBN: 9780744080827

Improve reading skills with 180 Days of Reading, 2nd Edition, a workbook of exciting and effective daily practice activities. This easy-to-use second grade workbook is great for at-home learning or classroom instruction. Watch students learn to read and write more confidently with these standards-based...

High School students at Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School in Chicopee, Massachusetts, want to go to college. They look to education to help them chart meaningful and fulfilling futures. The obstacles to their success are daunting. They live in urban neighborhoods similar to...

This volume compiles writings by and about Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a nineteenth-century Black radical feminist, an abolitionist, suffragist, and one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America. Mary Ann Shadd Cary includes letters, newspaper articles, organizational records, and never-before-published handwritten...

Inuit peoples have 50 words for snow because their survival requires this. Language provides texture, clarity, and differentiation of our experiences. It maps the knowable, and provides containers for our experience. The origin of words also deeply reveals how we see ourselves, our world,...

Talbot Taylor argues that in the child's acquisition of language the distinctively linguistic identity of language emerges only gradually, by means of the child's increasingly competent participation in the scaffolded discursive processes of reflexive enculturation. The papers included here explore the implications of this...

In this book, a high school student provides an intimate look at the interfaith community of Southern California through in-depth interviews with 15 prominent religious leaders. Spanning different faith traditions from Buddhism to Christianity, these insightful conversations reveal five common themes that unite us...

If you or your students dread the process of revision, this book will prove transformative. Deep Revision covers topics such as revision as a natural process, learning to revise by editing other people's writing, changing media to revise, and revising nonfiction with fiction techniques....

Revised and Updated! The Creative Writing MFA Handbook guides prospective graduate students through the difficult process of researching, applying to, and choosing graduate schools in creative writing. The handbook includes profiles of fifty creative writing programs, guidance through the application process, advice from current...

Gender and Journalism introduces students to how one facet of our humanity--gender--has a tremendous effect on the people working in journalism; the subjects and framing of the stories they tell; and ultimately the people who consume those stories. This engaging textbook provides a history...

Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society, and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class, and...

Learn and practice crucial 1st grade language arts skills anytime, anywhere with Sylvan Flashcards Colorful illustrations and exciting words make these spelling flashcards fun for any kid We've selected 230 words to help your child develop skills in phonics and spelling, and included 10...

When Kenny Albert was growing up, family gatherings sounded a lot like a dispatch from the first all-sports radio station. There was his father, Marv, whose voice shaped the sound of modern basketball, and there too were his uncles Al and Steve--a trio of...

In Tell Me a Story I Don't Know, veteran sports reporter and broadcaster George Ofman shares his most fascinating conversations with some of the biggest names in sports media. Through these previously untold anecdotes and insights, readers will gain a deeper understanding of the...

Integrating the disparate disciplines of descriptive cataloging, subject cataloging, indexing, and classification, the book adopts a conceptual framework that views the process of organizing information as the use of a special language of description called a bibliographic language.Instant electronic access to digital information is...

Soziale Medien erleichtern es Menschen, Informationen aller Art zu teilen und soziale Beziehungen zu pflegen. Sie sind in den letzten Jahren zu einem wesentlichen Bestandteil der digitalen Kommunikation geworden und ver ndern die Strukturen gesellschaftlicher ffentlichkeit, aber auch den allt glichen Austausch ber privat-pers...

During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang's Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication...

Telling one's life stories can be a voyage of self-discovery, freeing up images and thoughts that have long remained hidden. Bernard Selling shows new and veteran writers how to deal with the fear of writing: recall childhood events and important life experiences; find their...

Author: Vicki WiltPublisher: Tucker Seven Editorial ServicesPublished: 10/03/2023Pages: 196Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45dISBN: 9780988372733