What's New in Literacy Teaching?

Reissue of ILA bestseller.

What do we need to know about literacy practices in the 21st century? How do teachers weave together their grounded, time-honored practices for teaching students to read and write with new research, new text types, and new students? This e-book addresses these questions with research-based evidence presented in a user-friendly format appropriate for pre- and inservice teachers at all grade levels. Well-known literacy scholars share practical ways to apply this knowledge in classrooms to engage and challenge today’s students. Key topics covered include text complexity, vocabulary instruction, reading interventions, digital tools, critical literacy, and self-regulation. Each chapter offers teaching examples—scenarios, transcripts, photo essays, links to videos, screen shots of online strategies—that illustrate how excellent teachers are putting the evidence into practice in today’s classrooms.

Topics:

• Considers the varied abilities, interests, and socioeconomic backgrounds of today’s students.
• Responds to the diversity in races, ethnicities, cultures, and languages that students bring with them.
• Addresses the full range of ways students experience reading and writing: books, music, email, text, blogs, Facebook, Facetime, Instagram, Google.
• Includes samples of student work, teaching tools, and classroom examples in a convenient, visually appealing format.

Karen Wood is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Jeanne Paratore is a professor of education and the director of the reading education and literacy and language education programs at Boston University. Brian Kissel is associate professor of reading and elementary education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Rachel McCormack is professor of literacy education at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island.

“Insightful and thought-provoking, What's New in Literacy Teaching? is a must-have resource that belongs in the hands of administrators, curriculum coordinators, preservice teachers, experienced teachers, and literacy coaches who want to see how theory and research can be transformed into practical and innovative instruction to engage and challenge today's students.”
—Patricia A. Edwards, Michigan State University

“Written by outstanding scholars, this is a must-read for all those engaged in literacy development.”
—Lesley Mandel Morrow, distinguished professor, Rutgers University