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A state-of-the-art compendium of resource materials and current
practice that answers two basic questions: "What is literacy?" and
"How do individuals become literate?" Not long ago, literacy simply
meant knowing how to read and write. Today, the study of literacy
is a complex field encompassing many different areas, from computer
literacy to geographic literacy, and including several degrees of
competence such as functional, pragmatic, and cultured. In addition
there are six kinds of readers: the submissive, the active, the
semiotic, the subjective, the psychoanalytic, and the interpretive
community reader, and at least two distinct ways of reading:
aesthetic reading and rational reading. In this comprehensive,
accessible volume, two literacy experts not only help readers
understand the latest theories and the heated controversies in this
exciting field, they also show readers how this vast new knowledge
is being applied in successful literacy programs. Detailed
discussion of reader response theory and the different types of
readers Contact information for a variety of literacy organizations
along with a list of websites offering lesson plans, teaching
resources, and literacy research
A Road Less Traveled: Critical Literacy and Language Learning in
the Classroom, 1964-1996 takes us through what Robert W. Blake
calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts
classroom from its linguistic and literature foundations, to
emphases on close reading techniques and structures to composing
and responding to literature. A Road Less Traveled heads bumpily
into the path of learning how to work with "non-native speakers"
and other "basic" students toward a (re)-burst of a renewed
interest in poetry and drama, reader response, a process approach
to writing, and the diverse student, showing through the often
winding and blurry road along the journey of our literacy travels
over 30 years, that what we understood best about reading and
writing has stood the test of time.
There is often confusion over the meaning and usage of terms such
as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, optimization, and perfection
in biology. This book defines and discusses these concepts within a
broad evolutionary perspective and considers how evolutionary
pressures can affect the economy and efficiency of animals.
Chapters consider biomaterials, skeletal systems, muscular
function, aquatic and terrestrial locomotion, and cardiovascular
systems. The result is a book of interest to all biologists,
particularly those working in the field of comparative physiology
and evolutionary biology.
A Road Less Traveled: Critical Literacy and Language Learning in
the Classroom, 1964-1996 takes us through what Robert W. Blake
calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts
classroom from its linguistic and literature foundations, to
emphases on close reading techniques and structures to composing
and responding to literature. A Road Less Traveled heads bumpily
into the path of learning how to work with "non-native speakers"
and other "basic" students toward a (re)-burst of a renewed
interest in poetry and drama, reader response, a process approach
to writing, and the diverse student, showing through the often
winding and blurry road along the journey of our literacy travels
over 30 years, that what we understood best about reading and
writing has stood the test of time.
There is often confusion over the meaning and usage of terms such
as efficiency, economy, effectiveness, optimization, and perfection
in biology. This book defines and discusses these concepts within a
broad evolutionary perspective and considers how evolutionary
pressures can affect the economy and efficiency of animals.
Chapters consider biomaterials, skeletal systems, muscular
function, aquatic and terrestrial locomotion, and cardiovascular
systems. The result is a book of interest to all biologists,
particularly those working in the field of comparative physiology
and evolutionary biology.
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