Focusing on the relationship between learning oral language and learning about written
language, this book discusses the emergent literacy (EL) of children growing up in a …

This book is designed to provide guidance on conference teaching for teachers who have
not done much one-to-one teaching, for those who have but are looking for new insights …

This thesis reports on the effectiveness of using a critical genre-based approach (GBA) in
teaching academic English writing to student teachers who were learning English as a …

Intended to provide support, encouragement, and ideas for teachers wanting to make the
transition from skill-oriented basal texts to literature-based whole language programs, this …

Integrated approaches to the teaching of reading and writing being used in classrooms in
Australia and New Zealand are described in this booklet. The first part of the booklet …

Exploring questions about how the classroom environment affects young learners, this book
describes how young children from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds have coped …

Specifically intended to address the teaching of spelling, this description of an elementary
school program in Australia deals with many of the pedagogical problems that arise in whole …

Based on a seminal classroom research project directed by Dr. Donald Graves, as well as
on the experiences of numerous children, teachers, parents, and researchers around the …

An extensive discussion of literacy education in multicultural schools is designed to help
teachers help students develop language competencies through integrated multicultural …

This text recognizes that there is no simple way to develop literacy. It begins with the central
premise that literacy is not simply a cognitive process, but a set of social practices used in …