"The Power of Words examines the struggle for literacy in the linguistically diverse, socially complex, and politically sensitive coastal province of Guangdong in southeastern China between 1949 and 1995. Addressing the Mao Zedong era as well as the profound economic changes of …
Using a five-stage framework that has been field-tested nationwide for more than a decade, the authors provide an array of resources to guide in-depth planning, implementation, and monitoring to ensure sustained results, supported by examples from literacy-rich schools, checklis…
Directly linked with overall student achievement, graduation rates, and success in higher education, literacy is essential for reaching academic goals in a school or district. Adolescent literacy has become the focus of many school improvement efforts to meet the needs of upper …
Using a five-stage framework that has been field-tested nationwide for more than a decade, the authors provide an array of resources to guide in-depth planning, implementation, and monitoring to ensure sustained results, supported by examples from literacy-rich schools, checklis…
"Discusses service-learning as a teaching and learning method and its integration with writing. The various authors, from different disciplines and institutions, present service-learning as a means of having students practice writing in real world settings, and they show how rel…
Advances in literacy require collaboration between all of a school's stakeholders. This book harnesses the latest research and takes intoconsideration CCSS to show how to make that collaboration a reality.
The vital importance of literacy is underscored by ongoing study that continually refines the understanding of best practices. Both research and results fuel this updated edition. Insisting that literacy will only be achieved when librarians, teachers, literacy coaches, and othe…
Advances in literacy require collaboration between all of a school's stakeholders. This book harnesses the latest research and takes into consideration CCSS to show how to make that collaboration a reality.
"Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology?s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to s…
Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology?s Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to st…
Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a me…