Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies: Changing Times, Changing Literacies

by Michele Anstey

This timely resource explains the concept of multiliteracies and provides you with the knowledge, resources, attitudes, and strategies your elementary and middle school students need to succeed in a changing world. Authors Michèle Anstey and Geoff Bull present a range of new and established ideas about literacy, emphasizing successful practices. Chapters cover how teachers can Rely less on print texts
Respond to new trends in children's literature
Balance guided reading, outcomes-based curricula, and schoolwide approaches to planning
New concepts are accompanied by reflection strategies to help you think about your understandings of literacy, multiliteracies, and texts. Plus, all chapters include ''Theory Into Classroom Application'' sections that demonstrate how you can incorporate multiliteracies every day in your teaching. Copublished with the Australian Literacy Educators' Association The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. Some of the many areas we publish in -Comprehension
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Published June 1, 2006

Reviews

[Kalynda]

The book connects research to practice, while expanding upon the idea of "literacy" in a way that invites teachers and students to participate.