November 17th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: at, Children, Critical, critical literacy vasquez, dg, Literacies, Literacy, Negotiating, Reading, Writing, Young

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Vivian Vasquez draws on her own classroom experience to demonstrate how issues raised from everyday conversations with pre-kindergarten children can be used to create an integrated critical literacy curriculum over the course of one school year. The strategies she presents are solidly grounded in relevant theory and research. In this innovative and engaging text, Vasquez:
*describes how she and her students negotiated a critical literacy curriculum;
*shows how they dealt with particular social and cultural issues and themes; and
*shares the insights she gained as she attempted to understand what it means to frame one’s teaching from a critical literacy perspective.
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November 16th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: at, Canada, Designed, dg, early literacy, Individuals, Lessons, Literacy, literacy lessons designed for individuals, part, Procedures, Reading, teaching, web, Writing

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Successful early literacy intervention must be designed for individuals and delivered by trained teachers in the first two years of school.
Literacy Lessons: Designed for Individuals Part Two is a training manual for practising teachers. Children unable to READ and WRITE can achieve effective performance among their peers in their first or second year in school. Subsequently, in professional development sessions, those teachers will continue to explore many questions raised in the theoretical and research-based explanations provided in this book for each teaching procedure.
The book Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training (1993) is still valued by early intervention teachers. More…
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November 12th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: Area, Assessments, at, CliffsTestPrep, dg, English, Information, Linguistics, novels to know praxis exam of english, Praxis, Reading, Subject, Writing

- ISBN13: 9780471785064
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Your guide to a higher score on Praxis II?: English Subject Area Assessments (0041, 0042, 0043, 0048, 0049)
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Introduction
* Specific content covered on each test: English Language, Literature, and Composition: Content Knowledge (0041), Essays (0042), and Pedagogy (0043); Teaching Foundations: English (0048); and Middle School English Language Arts (0049)
Part I: Preparing for the Format of the Praxis II
* Strategies for answering all 3 types of questions: multiple choice, constructed response, and essay; plus…
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