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Language and Literacy Education

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21st Century Education by Thomas L. Good (Editor)
ISBN: 9781412950114
Publication Date: 2008
Includes 100 chapters written by leading experts in the field that highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates facing educators today.
Differentiated Literacy Strategies for English Language Learners, Grades 7-12 by Amy Burkman; Gayle H. Gregory
ISBN: 9781412996471
Publication Date: 2011
This versatile handbook is for middle school and high school educators who need to differentiate literacy instruction for adolescent ELL students at various stages of literacy competency.
Encyclopedia of Special Education by Elaine Fletcher-Janzen (Editor); Cecil R. Reynolds; Kimberly J. Vannest (Editor)
ISBN: 0470949384
Publication Date: 2014
Includes about 200 new entries, with increased attention given to those topics that have grown in importance since the publication of the third edition, such as technology, service delivery policies, international issues, neuropsychology, and RTI.
Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy by Nigel Hall (Editor); Joanne Larson (Editor); Jackie Marsh (Editor)
ISBN: 9780761974376
Publication Date: 2003
Examines early literacy research on a global scale, and puts social, cultural and historical analyses in the front seat, without losing sight of individual and family-level matters in the process.
Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts by Diane Lapp (Editor); Douglas Fisher (Editor)
ISBN: 0415877369
Publication Date: 2010
Offers an integrated perspective on the teaching of the English language arts and a comprehensive overview of research in the field.
International Handbook of Research on Children's Literacy, Learning and Culture by Barbara Comber (Editor); Teresa Cremin (Editor); Kathy Hall; Luis C. Moll (Editor)
ISBN: 9780470975978
Publication Date: 2013
Presents an authoritative distillation of current global knowledge related to the field of primary years literacy studies.
Reading by Ronald Carter (Ed.) and David Nunan (Ed).
ISBN: 0521805163
Publication Date: 2001
This important book, with 32 chapters by leading figures in the field, is an up-to-date guide to the central areas of applied linguistics and language studies with particular reference to TESOL. It looks at the current state of TESOL as well as at what is likely to happen in the future.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Contemporary Early Childhood Education by Donna Couchenour (Editor); J. Kent Chrisman (Editor)
ISBN: 9781483340357
Publication Date: 2016-09-02
Presents in three comprehensive volumes advanced research, accurate practical applications of research, historical foundations and key facts from the field of contemporary early childhood education.
The SAGE Handbook of Curriculum and Instruction by F. Michael Connelly; Ming Fang He; JoAnn Phillion
ISBN: 9781412909907
Publication Date: 2007
Aims to advance the study of curriculum and instruction by re-establishing continuity within the field while acknowledging its practical, contextual, and theoretical diversity.
The SAGE Handbook of Early Childhood Literacy by Joanne Larson (Editor); Jackie Marsh (Editor)
ISBN: 9780857029249
Publication Date: 2013
Provides in-depth knowledge of insights and theories about the dynamic process of how children come to know literacy as thinking humans in social and cultural spaces.