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Literacy Learning Communities: A Guide for Creating Sustainable Change in Secondary Schools
n Literacy Learning Communities veteran staff developer ReLeah Cossett Lent shows how LLCs can energize the professional community of any middle or high school. She offers concrete steps toward success: a thorough review of the unambiguous research...
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LITERACY LESSONS: UPDATED EDITION
This new edition of Marie Clay’s invaluable text contains the teaching procedures, implementation practices, and theoretical understandings that underpin Reading Recovery. This second edition includes teaching procedures that have been...
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Literacy Links: Practical Strategies to Develop the Emergent Literacy At-Risk Children Need
When young children have been deprived of literacy-building experiences, is it fair for them to start school being taught the same way as those with a rich reading and writing background? No, it's NOT fair, says reading expert Laura Robb. That's why she...
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Literacy Moves Outdoors
Have you ever thought about what literacy might look like outside of the classroom? It’s everywhere! Think about it: the first word a young child may learn to read is STOP, and playing with chalk on a driveway or sidewalk is often a...
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Literacy's Democratic Roots: A Personal Tour Through Eight Big Ideas
Take a tour with author Tom Newkirk through eight big ideas in literacy instruction and their embodiment of democratic values. He explores ideas from the founders of the “writing renaissance,” 1975–1987, and the impact those ideas have...
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Literate Days: Reading and Writing with Preschool and Primary Children
This is a multimedia curriculum resource for preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade teachers looking to enrich and broaden their literacy-related instructional practices. Framed by research notes and kidwatching forms, lessons present ideas for...
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Make It Real : Strategies for Success with Informational Texts
Recommended by the Ontario Ministry of EducationFeeding students a steady diet of fiction is all too common in the classroom. Yet informational literacy is critical to success in school and beyond. In this book, Linda Hoyt provides a practical,...