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  • Literacy Playshop

    New Literacies, Popular Media, and Play in the Early Childhood Classroom

    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Building on her award-winning research (featured in Playing Their Way into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has developed a curricular framework for children ages 3 to 8. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages children in creating their own multimedia productions, positioning them as media makers rather than passive recipients of media messages. The goal is ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Literacy, Play and Globalization

    Converging Imaginaries in Children's Critical and Cultural Performances

    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book takes on current perspectives on children’s relationships to literacy, media, childhood, markets and transtionalism in converging global worlds. It introduces the idea of multi-sited imaginaries to explain how children’s media and literacy performances shape and are shaped by shared visions of communities that we collectively imagine, including play, media, gender, family, school, or ... Read more

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  • Playing Their Way into Literacies

    Reading, Writing, and Belonging in the Early Childhood Classroom

    Series series Language & Literacy
    “This book provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of new and exciting pedagogical approaches to the teaching and learning of digital literacies in the earliest years of schooling... researchers, educators, and policymakers alike ignore its key messages at their peril in the decades ahead.”—From the Foreword byJackie Marsh, the University of Sheffield, UK“Play, too ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

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  • Developing Core English Language Learner’s Fluency and Proficiency: Building Reading & Writing Skills

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    This 2017 Spring issue of TexTESOL IV’s Fourth Estate is a brilliant success showcasing action research and discussions for ESOL Reading and Writing Skill development in the K-12 classrooms as well as University, Intensive English Programs, and Adult Ed programs. Herein you will find research grounded discussions on using music, poetry, and authentic materials to develop better writers in all ... Read more

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  • Third Culture Kids 3rd Edition

    The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds

    The absolute authority on Third Culture Kids for nearly two decades!In this 3rd edition of the ground-breaking global classic, Ruth E. Van Reken and Michael V. Pollock, son of the late original co-author, David C. Pollock, have significantly updated what is widely recognized as "The TCK Bible." Emphasis is on the modern TCK and addressing the impact of technology, cultural complexity, diversity ... Read more

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  • The Schools We Need

    And Why We Don't Have Them

    A powerful and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas—by one of America's most important educators, the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy."A penetrating and compelling analysis of how, despite the good intentions of educators, bad ideas and failed theories now characterize American education." —The Indianapolis StarFor over fifty years, American schools ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Understanding Children and Childhood

    A New Zealand Perspective

    by Anne Smith ...
    Understanding Children and Childhood examines how and why children develop, and how they interact with the people and events in their lives. Emphasising that children grow up in diverse cultural contexts, Anne Smith’s book builds an understanding of childhood in New Zealand based on childhood studies and sociocultural theory.The voices and experience of children are central to this book. The ... Read more

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  • Organised Sexual Abuse

    Organised Sexual Abuse offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary investigation of this phenomenon. Since the early 1980s, social workers and mental health professionals around the globe have encountered clients reporting sexual abuse by organized groups or networks. These allegations have been amongst the most controversial in debates over child sexual abuse, raising many unanswered questions. Are ... Read more

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  • Bringing Words to Life

    Robust Vocabulary Instruction

    Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K–12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book explains how to select words for instruction, introduce their meanings, and create engaging learning activities that promote both word knowledge and reading comprehension. The authors ... Read more

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  • Facing the Monster

    How One Person Can Fight Child Slavery

    An invisible, growing monster roams the streets, preying on millions of innocent victims in the United States and overseas. This monster is child slavery, and it is woven into the very fabric of our daily lives. Because it touches every aspect of our lives, however, it can be addressed and solved.In Facing the Monster, author Carol Hart Metzker calls attention to the plight of t he worlds children ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • American Child Bride

    A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States

    Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls — the most common underage spouses — Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD