Teaching the Dimensions of Literacy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415528719)

Teaching the Dimensions of Literacy provides both the conceptual knowledge to support teachers' instructional decisions in the reading/literacy classroom and a multitude of instructional strategy lessons for classroom use with both monolingual and bilingual students. It proposes that teachers need to help children become code breakers (the linguistic dimension), meaning makers (the cognitive dimension), text users and critics (the sociocultural dimension), and scientists (the developmental dimension). Acknowledging and addressing all four dimensions, this text links literacy theory, literacy research, and literacy practice in a useable way. Covering both reading and writing, it features clear, concise, and useable reading and writing strategy lessons and ways to modify them for different types of students.

Changes in the Second Edition: Entirely reorganized, the text is more user friendly, builds a stronger link between theory and practice, and makes it is easier for teachers to locate appropriate strategy lessons to use with their students. Academic literacy is addressed more fully.

Author: Stephen Kucer, Cecilia Silva
ISBN-10: 0415528712
ISBN-13: 9780415528719
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2012
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.00w x 0.70d