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  • Language and Literacy Beyond Decoding

    Evidence-Based Instruction in Grades PreK-6

    Successful reading comprehension requires readers to draw on a range of language comprehension abilities alongside decoding. This timely teacher reference and text explains how language comprehension develops throughout grades PreK–6 and presents evidence-based instructional strategies. The volume reviews innovative ways to conduct content-rich classroom conversations, deliver strategy and text ... Read more

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  • One Child, Two Languages

    A Guide for Early Childhood Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language, Second Edition

    Today's early childhood educators are serving more children learning English as a second language than ever—in Head Start alone, nearly 30% of the children speak a language other than English at home.* To support second language learners and put them on the path to academic success, every teacher needs this popular, practical, and highly readable guidebook.Reflecting 10 years of dramatic change in ... Read more

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  • Connecting Through Talk

    Nurturing Children's Development With Language

    How do responsive adult–child interactions influence early language development? How do a child's language skills develop in tandem with social-emotional development, executive function, and literacy? What are effective ways to help parents support their child's development? Uncover the answers to these questions in this fascinating book, which draws on current research to examine connections ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education

    A Contemporary Guide to Literacy Teaching and Interventions in a Global Context

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks of Education
    The Routledge International Handbook of Early Literacy Education offers a pioneering overview of early literacy provision in different parts of the world and brings together interdisciplinary research evidence on effective literacy teaching to inform current and future practice and policy of early literacy. From the problem of identification of literacy difficulties in a particular learning ... Read more

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  • Children's Language

    Volume 7

    Series series Children's Language Series
    This volume presents current research findings on vital issues in language development compiled by an international group of leading researchers. The data are drawn from studies of the acquisition of Swedish, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian, and English. Themes emphasized in all the chapters include the importance of the social context of acquisition, the existence of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • What Teachers Need to Know About Language

    Series Book 2 - CAL Series on Language Education
    Rising enrollments of students for whom English is not a first language mean that every teacher – whether teaching kindergarten or high school algebra – is a language teacher. This book explains what teachers need to know about language in order to be more effective in the classroom, and it shows how teacher education might help them gain that knowledge. It focuses especially on features of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Talking to Adults

    The Contribution of Multiparty Discourse to Language Acquisition

    This volume provides a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the contribution of multiparty intergenerational talk in a variety of cultures to the development of children's communicative capacities. The book focuses on the complexity of the cultural and interactional contexts in which pragmatic learning occurs and re-examines certain assumptions implicit in research on language socialization to ... Read more

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  • Literacy and Motivation

    Reading Engagement in individuals and Groups

    The central question in this volume is how to create a society of "engaged readers" in today's world, where reading is increasingly overruled by other media, such as television and personal computers. Engaged readers, as the term is used in this book, means readers who are socially interactive, strategic, and motivated.This state-of-the-art review contains research on integrating cognitive, social ... Read more

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    In this volume researchers from Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America employ a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches in their exploration of the links between identity, motivation, and autonomy in language learning. On a conceptual level the authors explore issues related to agency, metacognition, imagination, beliefs, and self. The book also ... Read more

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  • Writing

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    This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy, unified, and comprehensive source of information to ... Read more

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  • Educating Emergent Bilinguals

    Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for transforming our schools and students’ futures, such as building on students’ home languages and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Design Research on Learning and Thinking in Educational Settings

    Enhancing Intellectual Growth and Functioning

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    Series series Educational Psychology Series
    The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st century. Taking a new approach to this long-debated issue, it looks at how a design research-based science of learning (with its practical models and related design research) can provide insights and ... Read more

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