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Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies: Changing times, changing literacies

148 pp
Authors: Michèle Anstey and Geoff Bull
RRP: $39.95
SCIS No: 1280570
ISBN: 9780872075863
Teacher resource

Discover how multiliteracies can help you and your students respond to the evolving nature of texts. This timely resource explains the concept of multiliteracies and provides you with the literacy knowledge, resources and strategies your primary and middle year students need to succeed in a changing world.

Michèle Anstey and Geoff Bull present a range of new and established ideas about literacy, emphasising successful practices. These include suggestions for how teachers can rely less on print texts and respond to new trends in children's literature. They also present strategies to help teachers balance guided reading, outcomes-based curricula and school-wide approaches to planning.

New concepts are accompanied by reflection strategies to help you think about your understanding of literacy, multiliteracies and texts. Additional sections in each chapter demonstrate how you can incorporate multiliteracies every day in the classroom.

Real Life Literacy: Classroom tools that promote real-world reading and writing

128 pp
Author: Kathy Paterson
RRP: $49.95
SCIS No: 1281916
ISBN: 1551382040
Teacher resource

This practical handbook shows teachers how to help students develop the literacy skills they will need in the real world, including:

writing and deciphering messages (phone messages, thank-you notes, directions, letters)
making purchases (buying online, reading package labels, writing cheques, writing an advertisement)
decoding all kinds of schedules (timetables, guides).

This unique guide fills in the gaps missing from traditional language arts classes and makes valuable connections between school and the real world.

Family Literacy Experiences

128 pp
Author: Jennifer Rowsell
RRP: $49.95
SCIS No: 1281959
ISBN: 1551382075
Teacher resource

Just what teachers need to incorporate the rich diversity of home and out-of-school experiences in classroom instruction. This book explores innovative ways to motivate students, using all forms of communication - books, magazines, blogs, movies, zines, the Internet, television, music, comics, texting, newspapers, rap, video games, collector cards and more.

Based on the belief that literacy takes place everywhere, Family Literacy Experiences promotes learning strategies that incorporate what we see, read, hear and do every day.

Becoming a Literacy Leader: Supporting learning and change

174 pp
Author: Jennifer Allen
RRP: $45.00
SCIS No: 1266599
ISBN: 1571104194
Teacher resource

This unique chronicle is based on the belief that teachers already know what they need when it comes to professional development in literacy, and that the best literacy leaders are those who listen to and respect the educators in their midst. Practical and straightforward, the book covers all the bases - from organising a literacy room, creating model programs and leading teacher study groups to finding and budgeting money for professional development programs in literacy.

This insider's view helps to define what leadership looks like and shows how to create an environment that fosters professional development. It presents an optimistic and realistic portrait of life in schools among teachers committed to doing their jobs well.

The Daily Five: Fostering literacy independence in the elementary grades

126 pp
Authors: Gail Boushey and Joan Moser
RRP: $45.00
SCIS No: 1281978
ISBN: 1571104291
Teacher resource

The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks that students complete while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals. The book provides both the philosophy behind this structure and strategies to train students to participate in each of the components.

Explicit modelling, practice, reflecting and refining help to prepare the foundation for a year of meaningful content instruction tailored to meet the unique needs of each child. The Daily Five will help students to develop the daily habits of reading, writing and working with peers that will lead to lifelong literacy independence.

Q Tasks: How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers

144 pp
Authors: Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan
RRP: $49.95
SCIS No: 1277113
ISBN: 1551381974

This timely book shows teachers how to develop a questioning culture in the classroom, where every student's question is valued and encouraged. A step-by-step approach offers more than 80 proven classroom activities that will take students beyond memorisation and rote learning into the world of critical thinking. The book demonstrates a skill-building approach to all kinds of tasks, including:

evaluating the reliability of information
connecting with literature and the arts
analysing personal issues and setting realistic goals
exploring scientific and mathematical concepts
delving deeper into world issues
testing new ideas.

Q Tasks provides innovative ways to help students ask real questions that focus on understanding and give them ownership of their learning experiences.