literacy

Provides educators with visual teaching tools to help students think more strategically about reading as a way of maximizing the concepts of self-sufficiency and do-it-yourself learning.

Thirteen-year-old Travis, living in cramped quarters with his alcoholic grandfather, longs for his old life in the country, and struggles in school to hide the fact that he cannot read, but a persistent teacher and a special girl open his eyes to a new world.

Shows teachers how to teach reading through the power of story which deepens literacy learning and fosters true engagement in students. Also explains ways of building a classroom library reflecting the diversity of our society through rich, purposeful, and varied texts found in multigenre and multimodal stories from children's and young adult literature, poetry, songs, and multimedia.

Discusses the ways young children learn to read and write, exploring such topics as literacy awareness, concepts about print in English and other languages, fostering independence in early writing, introducing storybooks, and accommodating diversity.

Provides ideas and tips for planning baby storytimes.

Discusses the benefits of using a "free voluntary reading" model to encourage children to develop strong reading skills to excel academically and later as adults, describing literacy trends in the United States, and examining whether rewards-based programs encourage lifelong reading and the value of phonics in reading instruction.

A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.