literacy

An eighteenth-century schoolteacher encounters resistance from the community when she allows a former slave to join the children in her class.

A literacy text designed to help teachers develop a comprehensive literacy program, including complete reprints of stories supplemented by an extended Standards-Based Literacy lesson.

Presents a collection of fifty literacy strategies for the multicultural classroom that addresses all aspects of language arts, reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as the math, science, and social studies disciplines.

Sitting opposite Tina while she does her homework, her younger brother Tim learns to read right along with her, only he does it upside down.

Presents two hundred quick activities that teach reading and writing skills for prekindergarten to first grade, including letters, phonics, genre, mechanics, spelling, and other areas.

Examines the social crises of youth violence and illiteracy, maintaining that the culture of electronic media is dangerously reshaping cognitive development and social interaction.

Contains one hundred plans for group activities designed to help build literacy skills in children ages three and up, based on the "Between the Lions" television series, each with vocabulary words, a list of materials, and book suggestions.

In an attempt to learn to read, a twenty-five-year-old dropout sneaks back into high school, returning to the teen world of football practice, dating, and school lunch.