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The Throwaway kids
by Gary Simpkins
Book Description:
The Throwaway Kids by experienced and knowledgeable educator Gary Simpkins
offers an provocative idea on how to curb the unfortunately high rate at which
African American adolescents fail to learn basic reading skills, which
significantly contributes to their often dropping out of high school. Simpkins
recommends a challenging and effective system to help these at-risk African
American youngsters learn basic English. Outlining a plan that teaches the
students with African American Language materials and then helping students
transfer this skill to Standard English, The Throwaway Kids is a carefully
researched and presented alternative to failing standard methods -- and
essential reading for educators and administrators charged with lowering the
often appalling rates of African American youths failing to complete their high
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Teachers As Readers: Perspectives on the Importance of Reading in Teachers'
Classrooms and Lives
By Michelle Commeyras, Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff, Jennifer
Olson
Book description:
Teachers read books, journals, and other literature for professional purposes,
but what impact do their personal reading lives have on their teaching lives?
The contributors to Teachers as Readers: Perspectives on the Importance of
Reading in Teachers� Classrooms and Lives�themselves teachers and teacher
educators�explore the positive educational outcomes that are possible for
students when teachers share with them what, how, and why they read for
pleasure. The book presents 18 essays on a wide variety of classroom approaches
for different grade levels that successfully involve teachers and students in
enjoyable and instructive reading activities.
Teachers as Readers culminates in the presentation of 13 stances that the
contributors recommend for educators to enhance their teaching effectiveness,
regardless of the subject they teach. The stances address, among many other
issues, the need for teachers to inform students of the new vocabulary they
learn through reading, share with students how they choose their personal
reading materials, and reveal to students the questions they have when they
read.
The narratives in Teachers as Readers offer readers a view into the teachers�
lives as they come to better understand their own reading habits and into their
classrooms as they impart their reading practices to their students. These
authors hope the increased excitement about and interest in reading that they
have discovered with their students inspires other teachers to adopt similar
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Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives
by Mem Fox, Judy Horacek
Book Description:
Bestselling author and literacy expert Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional
and intellectual impact reading aloud to children has on their ability to learn
to read.
All parents want and expect their children to learn to read, but few realize
they can get their kids on the road to reading long before they start school
simply by reading aloud to them every day. With passion and humor, acclaimed
author and internationally respected literacy expert Mem Fox tells readers how
she herself became aware of the astonishing effects that reading aloud and
bonding through books have on very young children.
She speaks of when, where, and why to read aloud and demonstrates how to read
aloud to best effect and how to get the most out of a read-aloud session. She
walks readers through the three secrets of reading which together make reading
possible. She gives guidance on defining, choosing, and finding good books and
closes with tips on dealing effectively with the challenges that sometimes arise
when children are learning to read.
Filled with practical advice, activities, and inspiring true read-aloud
miracles, this book is a must for every parent-and for anyone interested in how
children learn to read. |
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Literacy Is Not Enough: Essays on the Importance of Reading
by
Brian Cox, Eric Bolton
Book Description:
The last two decades have
witnessed a considerable reaction to the progressive utopianism of the 1960s. In
education debates all over the English-speaking world, the talk is now of
competition, back to basics, league tables, the demands of the market. This
reaction has gone too far. Children need to be helped not only to achieve basic
literacy but to read "critically," to discriminate, to evaluate, to enjoy great
literature. It is not enough to help children to achieve literacy if this simply
means they read only sufficiently well to be seduced by advertisers and tabloid
newspapers. The essays in this book are by people engaged in the "promotion" of
English, be they primary teachers or university lecturers, novelists or poets,
publishers or social commentators, politicians or professors.
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"Reading Don't Fix No Chevy's" : Literacy in
the Lives of Young Men
by Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Book description:
The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been
the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy
educators can combat those problems. |
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Great Books for Boys: More Than 600 Books for
Boys 2 to 14
by
Kathleen Odean
Book description:
BOOKS THAT WILL MAKE BOYS WANT TO READ!
Parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians--we need a tool that guides us
to the books that will inspire boys to read and keep them coming back for more.
Now Kathleen Odean, a former member of the Caldecott and Newbery Award
committees and author of the groundbreaking bestseller Great Books for Girls has
compiled and annotated a unique collection of more than six hundred
books--picture books, novels, mysteries, biographies, sports books, and
more--that will fascinate and educate boys. Here are classic characters such as
Frog and Toad, Bilbo Baggins, and Encyclopedia Brown; new favorites such as
Bingo Brown, Martin the Warrior, and Harry the Dirty Dog; and real-life
inspirations such as the Wright brothers, Jackie Robinson, and Jacques Cousteau.
The boys who discover reading from the books in this invaluable volume will
witness a wide range of role models--and embark upon an adventure that will fuel
their dreams for the rest of their lives. |
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Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Recommended Books for Girls Ages
3-14
by Kathleen Odean
Book
description:
Odean, a children's librarian and reviewer for School Library Journal, has
compiled a guide for parents and educators looking for books "about girls who
defy the stereotypes about females in our culture." Her work introduces 600
titles, ranging from picture-story books for toddlers to biographies and novels
for adolescents that depict girls and women who are self-sufficient, decisive,
and assertive (e.g., Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy, 1964; Jane Goodall's My
Life with the Chimpanzees, 1988; Beverly Gherman's Sandra Day O'Connor, 1991).
Odean's background as a children's book expert is apparent in her well-crafted,
descriptive annotations. She supplies publishing data and age guidelines,
comments on illustrations, notes award-winning works, and points out content
strengths and weaknesses. The introduction and last chapter provide advice about
locating good children's books, reading aloud, etc. |
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To Be a Boy, to Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active
Literacy
by William G. Brozo
Book
description:
When it comes to reading, teen and preteen boys are your toughest students. Now,
solutions are at hand in this one-of-a-kind book that offers ideas for using
literature with positive male archetypes to motivate boys to read and capture
their unique imaginations. Author Brozo defines several such archetypes and
shares instructional vignettes in which teachers across the curriculum develop
innovative strategies and activities using young adult books with these
archetypes. He also shows you how to work with adults in the community to
positively influence boys' literacy behavior and create conditions that
encourage them to read. A foreword by Jon Scieszka explains why the need to help
boys is so urgent. An appendix offers a booklist of 300 titles to help you
identify appropriate archetypal literature.
Although this book is geared specifically toward helping boys, the author points
out that the strategies presented may also benefit girls by exposing them to
positive male images that are unlike the stereotypes of masculinity they are
exposed to every day.
To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader will help you stop the cycle of adolescent boys'
struggles with reading and engender a love of reading that last a lifetime.
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School's Out: Bridging Out-Of-School Literacies With
Classroom Practice
by Glynda A. Hull, Katherine Schultz
Review:
This is a necessary addition to the current body of literature on literacy. The
book begins with a concise review of the current research on out-of-school
literacies and proceeds to provide fascinating theoretical and practical
insights from educators and researchers. An interesting component to the volume
is the brief practitioner response that accompanies each chapter. This is a must
read for anyone interested in improving the literacy practices of marginalized
youth.
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Literacy in the New Media Age (Literacies)
by Gunther Kress
Synopsis:
In this "New Media Age" the screen has replaced the book as the dominant medium
of communication. This dramatic change has made image, rather than writing, the
centre of communication. In this book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a
revolution that has radically altered the relation between writing and the book.
Taking into account social, economic, communicational and technological factors,
Kress explores how these changes will affect the future of literacy. Kress
considers the likely larger-level social and cultural effects of that future,
arguing that the effects of the move to the screen as the dominant medium of
communication will produce far-reaching shifts in relations of power – and not
just in the sphere of communication. The democratic potentials and effects of
the new information and communication technologies will, Kress contends, have
the widest imaginable consequences. "Literacy in the New Media Age" should prove
useful for anyone with an interest in literacy and its wider political and
cultural implications.
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