Language & Literacy Books

New and Published Books

1. Running Records

   Authentic Instruction in Early Childhood Education

   By Mary Shea

   The most effective way to understand what a child knows about the reading process is to take a running record. In Running Records, Mary Shea demonstrates how teachers can use this powerful tool to design lessons that decrease reading difficulties, build on strengths, and stimulate motivation,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Hit the Headlines

   Exciting journalism activities for improving writing and thinking skills

   By Colin Macfarlane

   Hit the Headlines charts out a series of fun and inspiring, cross-curricular journalism workshops that enhance key skills and confidence in areas such as: Writing and editing. Critical assessment. Interviewing and observation. Mental flexibility and resourcefulness. Role-playing and...

   Published May 6th 2012 by Routledge
3. Handbook of Family Literacy

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Barbara H. Wasik

   The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book. It documents the need for literacy education for children and parents, describes early literacy and math development within the home, analyses interventions in home...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Local Literacies

   Reading and Writing in One Community

   By David Barton, Mary Hamilton

   Series: Routledge Linguistics Classics

   Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. Translation of Thought to Written Text While Composing

   Advancing Theory, Knowledge, Research Methods, Tools, and Applications

   Edited by Michel Fayol, M. Denis Alamargot, Virginia Berninger

   Translation of cognitive representations into written language is one of the most important processes in writing. This volume provides a long-awaited updated overview of the field. The contributors discuss each of the commonly used research methods for studying translation; theorize about the...

   Published February 8th 2012 by Psychology Press
6. The Essential Charles Dickens School Resource

   Contemporary Approaches to Teaching Classic Texts Ages 7-14

   By Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones

   Charles Dickens is arguably the greatest storyteller in English Literature and his novels have been loved and respected for nearly two hundred years. As accurate reflections of Victorian society they are unparalleled. Vivid characters and realistic settings are created in the mind of the reader,...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
7. Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing

   By Steve Bowkett

   Using Comic Art to Improve Speaking, Reading and Writing uses children’s interest in pictures, comics and graphic novels as a way of developing their creative writing abilities, reading skills and oracy. The book’s underpinning strategy is the use of comic art images as a visual analogue to help...

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
8. The Primary English Encyclopedia

   The heart of the curriculum, 4th Edition

   By Margaret Mallett

   ‘Do you know your diphthongs from your digraphs? Are you au fait with all the main reading programmes published in the UK? And can you really tell the difference between a legend, a myth and a fable? If you have any doubt about saying yes to any of these questions, fear not; the answers are all in...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
9. Just Imagine

   Music, images and text to inspire creative writing, 2nd Edition

   By James Carter

   Just Imagine is an exciting, unique and versatile resource that provides teachers with practical and stimulating creative writing activities for fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Taking three different, but interconnected media by which to generate and explore creative writing – ‘Text and Themes’, ‘...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Storytelling across the Primary Curriculum

    By Alastair K Daniel

    Starting from the question ‘what is a story?’ Storytelling Across the Primary Curriculum leads the reader through the theory and practise of storytelling as an educational method – a method taught by the author over the last ten years through Primary English teaching programmes. This practical...

    Published November 21st 2011 by Routledge