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Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses
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 Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses
his new edition includes much updated and revised material, and discusses some of the criticisms that have been made of the 'New Literacy Studies' and how work in this field relates to current debates about reading, literacy and schools.
 
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Tags: literacy, reading, about, debates, schoolsSocial
Making Sense: Small-Group Comprehension Lessons For English Language Learners
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Making Sense: Small-Group Comprehension Lessons For English Language LearnersThis book takes the position that oral language development and reading comprehension strategy instruction can go hand in hand.
By using small groups to provide support, teachers use their knowledge about how language is learned to scaffold instruction as they teach reading comprehension strategies.
This book about small-group strategy instruction gives explicit and concrete ways to teach students reading comprehension strategies as they learn English.
 
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Tags: instruction, reading, comprehension, about, strategy
Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12: Reinforcing the Threads of Reading
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Literacy Strategies for Grades 4-12: Reinforcing the Threads of ReadingIn Literacy Strategies for Grades 4–12: Reinforcing the Threads of Reading, Karen Tankersley provides a multiplicity of practical, research-based reading strategies tailored specifically for use with older students. These students may no longer have a reading class as part of the school day, but they are still developing their reading skills—and every teacher contributes to that effort.
Tankersley here focuses on the six foundational "threads" necessary for effective reading—phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order thinking—only this time with a focus on the last four threads, which are especially pertinent to the higher grades.
 
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Tags: reading, students, threads, Reading, Threads
Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies
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Reading Comprehension Strategies: Theories, Interventions, and Technologies
This volume provides an overview of reading comprehension strategies and strategy interventions that have been shown empirically to be effective in helping readers to overcome comprehension challenges. This volume differs from other books that might be found on reading strategies in two important ways.
 
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Tags: strategies, reading, comprehension, volume, important
Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
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Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades
There are certain "must have" books for teachers. This is one of them. Miller takes a decade of reading research (as synthesized by Pearson, et. al., 1992), and puts it into practice in her classroom. We move through the year with her, watching as she scaffolds for us and her students explicit reading instruction that truly works.
 
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Tags: reading, truly, instruction, students, scaffolds