Authors
- Jiening Ruan
- Priscilla L. Griffith
- Sara Ann Beach
- A. Loraine Dunn
Publication date: 2008-03-13
Dewey code: 372.6
List Price: $76.95
Price: $65.42
Review Literacy for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators / Corwin Press:This research-based guidebook offers PreK and kindergarten teachers easy-to-implement activities to develop oral language, phonological and print awareness, emergent writing, and comprehension skills in diverse classrooms.
Publication date: 2008-11-05
List Price: $65.00
Price: $65.00
Review The English Code: A Forensic Approach To Mastering The English Language / CreateSpace:This manual for the professional or home therapist is a 294-page instructional tool for the teaching of the intricacies of the English code. Covered in the manual are the key underlying components of phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, and sound-symbol correspondence. Additionally, readers will find in-depth discussions on articulation, spelling rules, syllable types, syllable division, accents, and a thorough exploration of Latinate, Anglo-Saxon, and Greek word construction is provided.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-12-01
Dewey code: 821.7
List Price: $65.00
Price: $64.97
Review Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production / Stanford University Press:This book explores Wordsworth’s professionalization as a writer in relation to the cultural and economic ascendancy of the English middle class between 1740 and 1820. Its wide-ranging interpretations are coordinated by a single, albeit highly ramified, critical hypothesis: that Romanticism’s aesthetic forms simultaneously afforded the middle classes an imaginary furlough from the impinging consciousness of their tenuous socio-economic status. Wordsworth’s Profession analyzes and correlates changing paradigms of authorship, poetic genre, and tone with the demographic and spiritual aspects of middle-class life during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The first of three parts explores Wordsworth’s early descriptive poetry (An Evening Walk, Descriptive Sketches, and “Tinturn Abbey”) in relation to inherited and contiguous aesthetic forms and practices, such as the landscapes of Lorrain and Gainsborough, Kant’s theory of aesthetic communities, and the institutions of domestic tourism and the Picturesque in late-eighteenth-century England. The second part addresses the construction of a distinctly middle-class paradigm of reading in Lyrical Ballads. It does so in relation to contemporary didactic fiction (Wollstonecraft), anti-didactic writing (Blake), speculative theories of education (Godwin, Coleridge, and Hegel), and the emergent so-called mutual tutor or “monitorial” systems of elementary schooling (Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster). The book’s final part, on The Prelude, focuses on representations of middle-class moral and economic anxiety as mediated in the spirited debate about populousness and public morality. Seen in this context, Wordsworth’s autobiography appears less a confession than an attempt to simulate poetic answers to questions lingering in the national unconscious, questions too vast and threatening to bear conscious asking.
Edition: annotated edition
Publication date: 2007-08-30
Dewey code: 016.920
List Price: $75.00
Price: $73.50
Review Remembered Childhoods: A Guide to Autobiography and Memoirs of Childhood and Youth / Libraries Unlimited:Focusing on books that tell, at least in part, the remembered stories of childhood and youth, this guide organizes more than 2,800 titles in categories that reflect shared themes and characteristics. Long groups works into such chapters as " The Travelled and the Captive: Adventurers, Explorers, and Warriors"; "Homes and Haunts: The Places and Cultures of Native Lands"; and "The Darker Side of Childhood; Outcasts, Violence, Abuse, Poverty, and Other Traumas". Keywords and occasional notes, along with birth and death dates of the author, accompany the entries, offering further insights into coverage.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2008-01-07
Dewey code: 028.90820940902
List Price: $95.00
Price: $77.95
Review Women Readers in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) / Cambridge University Press:Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of female readers was far greater than is commonly assumed. D. H. Green shows that, after clerics and monks, religious women were the main bearers of written culture and its expansion. Moreover, laywomen played a vital part in the process whereby the expansion of literacy brought reading from religious institutions into homes, and increasingly from Latin into vernacular languages. This study assesses the various ways in which reading was practised between c. 700 and 1500 and how these differed from what we mean by reading today. Focusing on Germany, France and England, it considers the different categories of women for whom reading is attested (laywomen, nuns, recluses, semi-religious women, heretics), as well as women's general engagement with literature as scribes, dedicatees, sponsors, and authors. This fascinating study opens up the world of the medieval woman reader to new generations of scholars and students.
Authors
- Maureen Leach
- Caroline Drake
- Judith Butcher
Publication date: 2006-10-16
Dewey code: 808.027
List Price: $90.00
Price: $66.46
Review Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders / Cambridge University Press:Since its first publication in 1975, Judith Butcher's Copy-editing has become firmly established as a classic reference guide. This fourth edition has been comprehensively revised to provide an up-to-date and clearly presented source of information for all those involved in preparing typescripts and illustrations for publication. From the basics of how to prepare text and illustrations for the designer and typesetter, through the ground rules of house style, to how to read and correct proofs, Copy-editing covers all aspects of the editorial process. New and revised features: • up-to-date advice on indexes, inclusive language, reference systems and preliminary pages • a chapter devoted to on-screen copy-editing • guidance on digital coding and publishing in other media such as e-books • updated to take account of modern typesetting and printing technology • an expanded section on law books • an essential tool for new and experienced copy-editors, working freelance or in-house.
Creator: Benedetta Bassetti
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 418
List Price: $199.95
Price: $146.85
Review Second Language Writing Systems (Second Language Acquisition (Buffalo, N.Y.)) / Multilingual Matters Limited:This is the first book to treat the acquisition and use of a second language writing system. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and writing systems, it investigates how people read, write and analyse a writing system that represents a second language.
Authors
- Donna Ogle
- Charles A. Temple
- Penny Freppon
- Alan N. Crawford
Publication date: 2007-04-02
Dewey code: 372
List Price: $115.40
Price: $85.00
Review All Children Read: Teaching for Literacy in Today's Diverse Classroom (Book Alone) (2nd Edition) (Mylabschool) / Allyn & Bacon:From the preface: "It is a challenging time, a fascinating time, a wonderful time to take up the challenge of teaching reading in North America, All Children Read: Teaching for Literacy in Today's Diverse Classrooms is not a book about special education. It is not a book about teaching English as a second language. It is a book about teaching reading and writing to every child who walks through the door of your classroom. They include both children who have a flair for reading and writing and children for whom literacy is a challenge. This is a book about helping all of them become readers and writers. " Written by one of the most dynamic author teams in the field of Reading and Literacy, the second edition of All Children Read continues to offer future K-8 teachers the best practices for nurturing emergent literacy, teaching early literacy concepts, and developing reading and writing in all students - those of varying reading levels and abilities, as well as those who are English language learners. The new edition increases its emphasis on the professional aspects of literacy instruction, and also includes significant new coverage of fluency and vocabulary, differentiated instruction (and connections to the SIOP), and the all important topics of literacy assessment. As with the First Edition, central to the text are the six overriding themes-the troubled reader, family/community literacy, technology, writing and reading connections, language diversity, and phonics/phonological awareness-interwoven throughout, making this text the most contemporary and critical learning aid to come out in the field in years and thus preparing future teachers for the demands of the classroom. Based on a whole-part-whole approach, this text is organized around a logical 3-Part structure. Part I explores the reading and writing process and orients readers to think about classrooms as diverse learning communities. [+]Part II delves into theoretical aspects of literacy including early literacy concepts, word recognition, comprehension, and reading to learn. The third and final section demonstrates how to "put it all together" to build reading and writing instruction for children grade level by grade level.
Creator: James F. Christie
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-06-26
Dewey code: 372.6
List Price: $85.00
Price: $70.75
Review Play and Literacy in Early Childhood: Research From Multiple Perspectives, Second Edition / Lawrence Erlbaum:This volume presents studies and research syntheses on the significance of play in the literacy development of young children and pushes the study of play and literacy into new areas. Children’s play is under serious attack that puts it in a precarious position in today’s brave new world dominated by early learning standards and achievement outcomes. Reflecting this paradigm shift that has taken place since the publication of the first edition, this edition is organized around a different set of focal perspectives on the play-literacy interface:*The Playful Mind;*The Play-Literacy Instructional Environment; and*The Play-Literacy Social Context. Looking both back and ahead—re-visiting previously reported studies and also introducing new inquiries into the role of play in early literacy development and learning, especially as these shed light on school readiness—this volume mines studies that directly focus on play-literacy links as well as new studies and syntheses that take these links in new directions and to new starting places for research. It challenges play-literacy researchers to use their imaginations to overcome persistent methodological problems, to break from the past into new territories of study (such as neuroscience), to strive for multi-disciplinary perspectives, and to push harder for the incorporation of play into the literacy education of young children. Play and Literacy in Early Childhood is intended for researchers and practitioners in the fields of early childhood education and early literacy development and as text for upper-level courses in these areas.
Edition: 8
Publication date: 2008-11-28
Dewey code: 428
List Price: $78.00
Price: $67.00
Review Guide to College Reading (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card) (8th Edition) (McWhorter Developmental Reading (Comprehensive)) / Longman:Designed for use in the first level reading course, Guide to College Reading focuses on reading comprehension, vocabulary improvement, and textbook reading while addressing the learning characteristics, attitudes, and motivational levels to equip students with the skills and thinking processes they need to handle the diverse reading demands of college courses
Publication date: 2008-08-28
Dewey code: 372.632
List Price: $70.00
Price: $64.86
Review Why Kids Can't Spell: A Practical Guide to the Missing Component in Language Proficiency / Rowman & Littlefield Education:
Publication date: 1993-06-30
Dewey code: 070.50944
List Price: $112.95
Price: $112.95
Review Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America: A Symposium at the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series) / Greenwood Press:This volume presents a comparative framework in which to study the history of publishing and readership in Europe and North America during the eighteenth century. The chapters are grouped in four broad sections devoted to publishing as a profession, publishing and the law, readership, and the collection and use of materials. Chapters in each section are written by leading French and American specialists in this field. The chapter authors address their topics from the perspectives of social, economic, and cultural history; literary criticism; law; and library history. This comparative approach yields new insights into the political cultures of eighteenth-century France and America and into the relationship of print media and political culture.
Publication date: 2000-12-15
Dewey code: 028
List Price: $65.00
Price: $65.00
Review Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual (Studies in Comperative Literature) / Legenda:Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) is now recognized as a writer of international stature. The success of Memoires d'Hadrien (1951) and her election to the Académie française in 1980 have created a worldwide audience for her work across the genres - novel, short story, essay, memoir and play - and for her published interviews and correspondence. By subverting some of Yourcenar's own accounts of her work and engaging with recent developments in the fields of art history and critical theory, Nigel Saint offers new directions in literary studies and visual culture studies. His reading of Yourcenar embraces both the historical novels and the lesser-known essays, and constructs an interdisciplinary theory for the analysis of visual experience as inflected by writing.
Creator: S. M. Glynn
Publication date: 1987-06-01
Dewey code: 153.6
List Price: $90.00
Price: $85.61
Review Executive Control Processes in Reading (Reading and Comprehension) / Lawrence Erlbaum:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2007-07-26
Dewey code: 428
Price: $67.09
Review Flemming Reading Keys Second Edition Plus Eduspace / Houghton Mifflin Company:
Authors
- Anita Bell McClain
- M. Carrol Tama
Publication date: 2007-06-30
Dewey code: 372
List Price: $64.84
Price: $64.84
Review Guiding Reading and Writing in the Content Areas: Practical Strategies / Kendall Hunt Pub Co:
Publication date: 2007-02
List Price: $65.33
Price: $65.33
Review Reading Across the Discplines: College Reading and Beyond (Wiht Myreadinglab) / Longman Publishing Group:
Publication date: 2006-12-16
Dewey code: 841.1
List Price: $84.00
Price: $67.50
Review Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience (Studies in Book and Print Culture) / University of Toronto Press:Guillaume de Machaut (1300–1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit, calls attention to the coexistence of public and private reading practices through its intensely hybrid form: sixty-three poems and ten songs invite an oral performance, while forty-six private prose letters as well as elaborate illustration and references to it’s own materiality promote a physical encounter with the book. In Controlling Readers, Deborah McGrady uses Machaut’s corpus as a case study to explore the impact of lay literacy on the culture of late-medieval Europe. Arguing that Machaut and his bookmakers were responding to contemporary debates surrounding literacy, McGrady first accounts for the formal invention of the lay reader in medieval art and literature, then analyses Machaut and his bookmakers’ innovative use of both narrative and bibliographical devices to try to control the responses of his readers and promote intimate and sensual reading practices in place of the more common public performances of court culture. McGrady’s erudite and exhaustive study is key to understanding Machaut, his works, and his influence on the history of reading in the fourteenth-century and beyond.
Creator: Lynn D. Lampert
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2007-10-03
Dewey code: 028.7071
List Price: $75.00
Price: $75.00
Review Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program / Neal Schuman Publishers:Developing an information literacy program in the 21st century requires more than simple planning it requires a thoroughly designed strategy based on proven success. In this book, twenty information literacy experts, including Michael Eisenberg, Virginia Walter, and Lesley Farmer, explore various techniques and contribute perspectives on information literacy programs in educational environments from kindergarten through higher education, including public libraries. The result is an indispensable volume that provides an integrated, comprehensible approach for creating a successful, sustained program. The book is divided into chapters, each focusing on one of the 17 components that make up what authors Curzon and Lampert identify as the information literacy wheel. Each section of the wheel planning, teaching models, collaboration, marketing, assessment, and more undergoes in-depth analysis by one of the information literacy professionals. Here is a key resource, packed with compelling analyses and real-world examples from the experts themselves, for developing an effective, multi-dimensional information literacy program in the 21st century.
Edition: illustrated edition
Publication date: 2006-07-30
Dewey code: 306.4880951
List Price: $65.00
Price: $64.97
Review A Social History of the Chinese Book: Books And Literati Culture in Late Imperial China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture) / Hong Kong University Press:Joseph McDermott traces the history of the book in China from 1000 to 1800, illustrating the Chinese experience with books through comparisons to other civilizations, particularly those in Europe. He presents novel analyses of the changes in Chinese woodblock book-making over several centuries and a new view of the period in which the printed book replaced the manuscript. He also explores the distribution and marketing structure of books and the history of book collecting.
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Literacy for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators, The English Code: A Forensic Approach To Mastering The English Language, Wordsworth's Profession: Form, Class, and the Logic of Early Romantic Cultural Production, Remembered Childhoods: A Guide to Autobiography and Memoirs of Childhood and Youth, Women Readers in the Middle Ages (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature), Butcher's Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders, Second Language Writing Systems (Second Language Acquisition (Buffalo, N.Y.)), All Children Read: Teaching for Literacy in Today's Diverse Classroom (Book Alone) (2nd Edition) (Mylabschool), Play and Literacy in Early Childhood: Research From Multiple Perspectives, Second Edition, Guide to College Reading (with MyReadingLab Student Access Code Card) (8th Edition) (McWhorter Developmental Reading (Comprehensive)), Why Kids Can't Spell: A Practical Guide to the Missing Component in Language Proficiency, Publishing and Readership in Revolutionary France and America: A Symposium at the Library of Congress, Sponsored by the Center for the Book and the European Division (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series), Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual (Studies in Comperative Literature), Executive Control Processes in Reading (Reading and Comprehension), Flemming Reading Keys Second Edition Plus Eduspace, Guiding Reading and Writing in the Content Areas: Practical Strategies, Reading Across the Discplines: College Reading and Beyond (Wiht Myreadinglab), Controlling Readers: Guillaume de Machaut and His Late Medieval Audience (Studies in Book and Print Culture), Proven Strategies for Building an Information Literacy Program, A Social History of the Chinese Book: Books And Literati Culture in Late Imperial China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture)Top headlines: Newsweek:Chemicals in fireworks dangerous?: This Saturday, Americans all across the country will look to the skies to witness fireworks. 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