Reading, Writing, and Gender
Title | Reading, Writing, and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Lynn Goldberg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 191 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1317922670 |
Like an increasing number of educators, you recognize that girls and boys approach reading and writing differently, and that boys are lagging behind girls in many assessments of literacy learning. This book does more than describe and explain these differences. It builds on the authors' state of the art research to offer instructional strategies and classroom activities to help both girls and boys develop as readers and writers. This book is for classroom teachers in grades 3 - 8 as well as for reading specialists, instructional leaders and other educators. It provides detailed descriptions of instructional activities, accompanied by reproducible tools and materials; illustrative examples of student work; concise summaries of state-of-the-art research; and ideas for action research projects. The strategies and activities in this book have all been classroom tested with diverse student populations.
Reading, Writing, and Gender
Title | Reading, Writing, and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Lynn Goldberg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 227 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1317922662 |
Like an increasing number of educators, you recognize that girls and boys approach reading and writing differently, and that boys are lagging behind girls in many assessments of literacy learning. This book does more than describe and explain these differences. It builds on the authors' state of the art research to offer instructional strategies and classroom activities to help both girls and boys develop as readers and writers. This book is for classroom teachers in grades 3 - 8 as well as for reading specialists, instructional leaders and other educators. It provides detailed descriptions of instructional activities, accompanied by reproducible tools and materials; illustrative examples of student work; concise summaries of state-of-the-art research; and ideas for action research projects. The strategies and activities in this book have all been classroom tested with diverse student populations.
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve
Title | Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Blatt |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-03-14 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1501105388 |
"Blatt brings big data to the literary canon, exploring the wealth of fun findings that remain hidden in the works of the world's greatest writers. He assembles a database of thousands of books and hundreds of millions of words, and starts asking the questions that have intrigued curious word nerds and book lovers for generations: What are our favorite authors' favorite words? Do men and women write differently? Are bestsellers getting dumber over time? Which bestselling writer uses the most clichaes? What makes a great opening sentence? How can we judge a book by its cover? And which writerly advice is worth following or ignoring?"--Amazon.com.
Gender and Reading
Title | Gender and Reading PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth A. Flynn |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | 368 |
Release | 1986-02-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801829079 |
Reading, Writing, and Segregation
Title | Reading, Writing, and Segregation PDF eBook |
Author | Sonya Yvette Ramsey |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 210 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | African American women teachers |
ISBN | 0252032292 |
Female educators' story of the segregation and integration of Nashville schools
Reading, Writing, and Gender
Title | Reading, Writing, and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Lynn Goldberg |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017-06-30 |
Genre | Children |
ISBN | 9781138439795 |
Like an increasing number of educators, you recognize that girls and boys approach reading and writing differently, and that boys are lagging behind girls in many assessments of literacy learning. This book does more than describe and explain these differences. It builds on the authors' state of the art research to offer instructional strategies and classroom activities to help both girls and boys develop as readers and writers. This book is for classroom teachers in grades 3 - 8 as well as for reading specialists, instructional leaders and other educators. It provides - detailed descriptions of instructional activities, accompanied by reproducible tools and materials - illustrative examples of student work - concise summaries of state-of-the-art research - ideas for action research projects.The strategies and activities in this book have all been classroom tested with diverse student populations.
Literature and Gender
Title | Literature and Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Lizbeth Goodman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 420 |
Release | 2013-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135636001 |
Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to the study of literature. The volume covers all three major literary genres - poetry, fiction and drama - and closely examines a wide range of themes, including: feminity versus creativity in women's lives and writing the construction of female characters autobiography and fiction the gendering of language the interaction of race, class and gender within writing, reading and interpretation. Literature and Gender is also a superb resource of primary texts, and includes writing by: Sappho Emily Dickinson Sylvia Plath Tennyson Elizabeth Bishop Louisa May Alcott Virginia Woolf Jamaica Kincaid Charlotte Perkins Gilman Susan Glaspell Also reproduced are essential essays by, amoung others, Maya Angelou, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Toni Morrison, Elaine Showalter, and Alice Walker. No other book on this subject provides an anthology, introduction and critical reader in one volume. Literature and Gender is the ideal guide for any student new to this field.