Language Arts & Disciplines : Literacy

A guide to differentiated instruction for diverse learners, this book places the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities, front and center, instead of treating them as special topics. It demonstrates how to link formal and informal assessment to evidence-based instruction. more...

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This best-selling literacy title has been updated to take into account the National Literacy Strategy and the Introduction of the Literacy Hour. more...

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Presents a research on the components of successful literacy learning and how to target them in contemporary classrooms. This volume contains ten papers by Steven Stahl, accompanied by chapters by other leading experts, who highlight Stahl's theoretical, methodological, and instructional innovations. more...

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This text explores changing understanding of literacy and its place in contemporary workplace settings. It highlights questions and dilemmas to consider when planning and teaching workplace education and challenges traditional thinking about workplace literacy as functional skills. more...

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The traditional Western view of writing, from Aristotle down to the present day, has treated the written word as a visual substitute for the spoken word. The eminent Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) was the first to provide this traditional assumption with a reasoned basis by incorporating it into a more general theory of signs. In the wake of Saussure's work, modern linguistics has ignored or marginalized writing in favour of the study of speech.In all literate societies, however, speech in turn is interpreted by reference to the culturally dominant writing system. This puts in place a system of educational values which ensures that the more literate members of society maintain superiority over the less literate, and at the same time establishes a hierarchy among literate societies which favours the local product (alphabetic scripts in the Western Case).Roy Harris shows that the theory of writing adopted in modern linguistics is deeply flawed. Reversing the orthodox priorities, the author argues that writing is a far more powerful mode of linguistic communication than speech could ever be. His book is a major contribution to current debates about human communication written and spoken. more...

Price: $150.00