Review "Gee astutely points out that for video game makers, unlike schools, failing to engage children is not an option."--Terrence Hackett, The Chicago Tribune "These games succeed because, according to Gee, they gradually present information that is actually needed to perform deeds."--Norman A. Lockman, USA Today "James Paul Gee's What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy has been a transformative work. Gee might be described as the Johnny Appleseed of the serious games movement, planting seeds that are springing new growth everywhere we look. More than anyone else, he has forced educators, parents, policy makers, journalists, and foundations to question their assumptions and transform their practices. Gee combines the best contemporary scholarship in the learning scientists with a gamer's understanding of what is engaging about this emerging medium."--Henry Jenkins, author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Launch into Literacy is a stuctured five-course book for 7-11 year olds. It presents a wide range of texts for children to study as models for their own writing at text, sentence, and word level.
Teaching English, Language and Literacy is an essential introduction
for anyone learning to teach English at primary school level. Designed
for students on initial teacher training courses and also of great use
to those teachers wanting to keep pace with the latest developments in
their specialist subject, the book covers the theory and practice of
teaching English, Language and literacy and is closely related to the
new National Literacy Strategy.
Your complete guide to a higher score on the CSET: English
*Successful strategies for every test area
*Sample questions, answers, and explanations
*Analysis of every question type
*Literature and textual analysis
*Composition and rhetoric overview
*Review of speech, media, and creative performance
*Explanations of language, linguistics, and literacy
About the contents:
*Overview of the test and how it is scored
*How to get the most out of your study time
*Action plan for doing your best
*Answers to your questions about the test
Picture Stories : Language and Literacy Activities for Beginners Picture Stories : Language and Literacy Activities for Beginners is the perfect book for young adult and adult students with minimal literacy skills in English.
Each of the sixteen stories, told through a sequence of then
pictures, deals with a particular cultural topic such as using the
pelephone, on-the-job responsibilities, household safety, male/female
relationships, and shoping etiquette. The humor in the stories makes
them fun to "read" and encourages discussion.
Students will :
Talk about the pictures
Number the pictures in sequential order
Match the pictures with the printed word
Complete fill-in-the-blank activities
Write the story
*Detailed Teacher's Notes and an Answer Key are included at the back of the book.
