Drawing on ethnographical evidence, this book examines the complexity of the controversial construct non-native English-speaking teacher (NNEST) and the newly proposed translingual/translanguaging teacher in re-scripting their identities....Daugiau...
In Patterns of Revision, best-selling authors Travis Leech and Jeff Anderson share the research-proven and classroom-tested methods of sentence combining in a meaningful, engaging way that supports authentic writing as well as performance-based or m...Daugiau...
A Sentence a Day is not your average grammar workbook. Focusing on short, playful, interesting sentences with a sense of humor, these proofreading exercises help students learn without feeling overwhelmed....Daugiau...
This book presents a new approach to writing instruction based in linguistic research and theory. In this book, James D. Williams explores the historical failures of composition studies and the need for effective writing instruction to be grounded i...Daugiau...
Murphy and ONeill examine the landscape of high-stakes, test-based writing curriculum and assessment and propose a new way forward that centers student learning and success. The authors demonstrate how a test-based approach to accountability and cur...Daugiau...
This volume details the development and initial evaluation of a supplemental literacy course intended to support at-risk high school students in the US. Developed using design based research (DBR), the course combines argument writing and knowledge...Daugiau...
This collection explores the role of individual faculty initiatives and institutional faculty development programs in supporting programmatic adoption of multimodal composition across diverse institutional contexts....Daugiau...
Focussing on the needs and experiences of underrepresented students in the US, this text explores how pre-college outreach programs can effectively support the development of students writing skills in preparation for the transition from high school...Daugiau...
This book offers pedagogical strategies for reclaiming writing spaces in classrooms and the knowledge base in which they are grounded. Writing is considered across the curriculum and across modes of writing from traditional text-based forums to digi...Daugiau...
Grounded in social and cognitive learning theories, the second edition of Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing, K-4 still details the seven principles of apprenticeship learning and helps K4 teachers implement and asses...Daugiau...
Chronicles 5th and 6th grade writers in a poor, culturally diverse, rural school in the southwest US coming into their voices, cultivating those voices, and using those voices in a variety of venues, beginning with the classroom community and spread...Daugiau...
In A Place for Wonder, Georgia Heard and Jennifer McDonough discuss how to create a landscape of wonder, a primary classroom where curiosity, creativity, and exploration are encouraged. For it is these characteristics, the authors write, that develo...Daugiau...
This book presents the potential uses and benefits of journals for personal and professional developmentparticularly for those in academic life; and demonstrates journals potential to foster college students learning, fluency and voice, and creative...Daugiau...
This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced with the increasing use of standardized high-stakes testing? Teachers need both...Daugiau...
When we open the gates to nonfiction inquiry, we open our thinking and expect the unexpected, making reading discoveries, research discoveries, and writing discoveries on our way....Daugiau...
Distinctive textbook synthesizes what we know about how children learn, how we write, and what we write into a process of teaching children to write in elementary classrooms....Daugiau...
This text focuses on the tension between classroom assessment and externally mandated testing. It presents the efforts of researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to understand the impact of classroom portfolios for the assessment of writing ach...Daugiau...
