Karen Gallas provides us with a window into children s thinking about the world enabling us to see how students build complex theories identify important questions and begin to enter the world of science all within the naturalistic setting of the classroom. As the... Lees meer.
Israel offers an organized resource for teaching vocabulary and provides word lists literature connections and extensions journal prompts and additional resources for teachers. The book s organization allows a teacher to pick and choose where to start and what to in... Lees meer.
Dominant assumptions about place tend to be defined in relation to urban communities. To assume a singular construction of urban places misrepresents the experiences perspectives and identities of urban children making their identities become invisible to researcher... Lees meer.
This book critically analyzes research and theory on literacy acquisition from an ecological perspective. McBridge-Chang considers both the universals and specifics of reading acquisition with particular emphasis on early literacy development across cultures. Topics co... Lees meer.
The International Handbook of Research in Children s Literacy Learning and Culture presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowledge related to the field of primary years literacy studies. Features chapters that conceptualize interpret and synthesiz... Lees meer.
Originally published in 1985. Research has shown the considerable benefit in having carefully structured systems for parental involvement - this book presents a review of past and current good practice. Parental involvement in children s education is a subject of g... Lees meer.
Since children s progression in reading film is found to be not necessarily age-related but rather built on a period of experience and opportunity to read and or create moving image media Bulman clearly illustrates the importance of the inclusion of film in the primar... Lees meer.
This edited volume constitutes the first serious sustained examination of the study of children s books for children aged from 0 to 3 with contributions by scholars working in different domains and attempting to assess the recognition of the role and influence of child... Lees meer.
This book is based on the power of stories to support children in all areas of their lives. It examines the role narratives can play in encouraging growth in contexts and domains such as personal and family identity creative movement memory and self-concept social re... Lees meer.
This book offers specific examples and empirical evidence of how multimodal integrated science-literacy curriculum and teaching in urban primary-grade classrooms give students opportunities to learn science and to develop positive images of themselves as scientists.... Lees meer.
More than one hundred leading authors and illustrators donate their talents in a creative tour de force that is making history.Conceived and co-created by the National Children s Book and Literary Alliance this outstanding collection of essays personal accounts histo... Lees meer.
AUTHOR AND ARTIST S JOURNEY This book is a synthesis of the techniques I am developing as an author and illustrator. I begin by explaining the evolution of four children s books and include self-publishing and marketing tips. The definitions of writing and art vocabula... Lees meer.
Explores and analyses the ways in which very young children s developing literacy can be supported by their experience of watching TV and videos. This book addresses ways teachers can use children s experience of watching stories on video or TV to feed back into their o... Lees meer.