Taylor offers an engaging story of the often complex interaction within each family and how that interaction contributed to the children's literacy development.

Family Literacy: Young Children Learning to Read and Write

Education & Teaching

Taylor, Denny

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann Drama

This is a important, timely book about the ways the welfare system, the criminal justice system, the health sare system, and other bureaucracies use offical texts to control our lives.

Toxic Literacies: Exposing the Injustice of Bureaucratic Texts

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Heinemann

In her attempt to find out more about literacy activities within the family context, Denny Taylor spent three years doing field work with six families. At the time of the study, each of the families contained a child who was considered by his or her parents to be successfully learning to read and write. This study attempts to develop systematic ways of looking at reading and writing as activities which have consequences in, and are affected by, family life.

FAMILY LITERACY: YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE

Family Storybook Reading provides vivid accounts of parents sharing storybooks with children. All kinds of families are represented with varied lifestyles, cultural backgrounds, and membership configurations. Through the descriptions and accompanying explanations the reader becomes acquainted with the special role that storybook reading plays in family life and in the acquisition of language and literacy skills.

Family Storybook Reading

Strickland, Dorothy S.

Literacy is not always liberating. To be lierate is a uniquely human experience; it is never a mechanical process that is solely dependent on skills that are taught. These are but a couple of the conclusions Taylor and Dorsey-Gaines reached while studing young black children living in inner-city poverty who were growing up literate.

Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families

Dorsey-Gaines, Catheri

Learning Denied is a powerful document. Denny Taylor's conclusions confirm many teachers' doubts about America's mania for standardized tests, and serve as a signal to teachers and administrators that a reliance on test results can be more than misleading; it can be a hazard to the child.

Learning Denied (Learning Disability Biography)

Taylor's collection of related essays demonstrates the tremendous potential for real learning and real understanding when teachers sit side by side with their students and view the world from their perspective.

From the Child's Point of View

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Many Families, Many Literacies

Heinemann Educational Books

Pages clean and unmarked. Slight wear from time on shelf like you would see on a major chain. Immediate shipping.

Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science: The Political Campaign to Change America's Mind About How Children Learn to Read

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Natl. Council of Teachers of English

What would it take to make Earth a child safe zone? Nineteen Clues: Great Transformations Can be Achieved through Collective Action makes the case that there are two threats to our children that impact every aspect of their present and future lives. The first threat to our children is the hostile take over the US public education system. Noam Chomsky calls it, “the campaign to destroy those parts of the education system that enrich the lives of students, that interfere with indoctrination, with control, with imposing passivity and obedience.” While Diane Ravitch writes, “Never have public schools been as subject to upheaval, assault, and chaos as they are today.” Across America parents and teachers are organizing in response to this dangerous threat to children, to democracy, and to the future of US society. Nineteen Clues traces the emergence of a powerful and dynamic children’s civil rights movement, including the establishment of organizations such as United Opt-Out, BadAss Teachers, and Save Our Schools. The second threat to our children is the great acceleration in the changes taking place to the planet. “Humanity is standing at a moment in history when a Great Transformation is needed to respond to the immense threat to the Earth,” a group of Nobel Laureates writes in their summary of the 2007 Potsdam Memorandum on Global Sustainability. “We live on a human-dominated planet, putting unprecedented pressure on the systems on Earth,” Johan Rockström said in his 2010 presentation. “The planetary risks we're facing are so large, that business as usual is not an option. In fact, we’re in a phase where transformative change is necessary, which opens the window for innovation, for new ideas and new paradigms.”“Society is taking substantial risks by delaying urgent and large-scale action,” Lidia Brito and Mark Stafford Smith write in The State of the Planet Declaration, which was the consensus of more than 3,000 scientists at the 2012 Planet Under Pressure Conference. “We must show leadership at all levels. We must all play our parts. We urge the world to grasp this moment and make history.”Garn Press was founded so we can play our part, and Nineteen Clues takes up this challenge. It makes the case that what is good for our children is good for the planet, and that these are not separate struggles. The arguments presented in Nineteen Clues have been many years in the making, presented at national and international conferences, and critiqued in peer-review. Nineteen Clues unites the struggles of scientists, teachers and parents. It salutes their tenacity and grit, as well as the brilliance of their arguments and their endurance. It is written in the belief that this is a moment in history when we must unite in the struggle to make Earth a child safe zone, knowing that people can succeed when governments fail.

Nineteen Clues: Great Transformations Can Be Achieved Through Collective Action

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Garn Press

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