A Better Pencil examines the digital revolution in light of the history of writing technology. Baron looks at how we love, fear, actually use our writing machines-not just computers but typewriters, pencils, and clay tablets-how we deploy them to replicate the old ways of doing things while actively generating new modes of mass expression; how we learn to trust new technology and the new and ...

Presents a snapshot of the role of literature in the lives of Americans. This book establishes trends in the number of adults reading, listening to, and writing literature by demographic categories of age, race, region, income, and education.

Presents a comprehensive collection of international research on literacy development and enhancement in this changing multicultural and multilingual world. This book intends to bring together the innovative research from across the world focusing on the development of early literacy in different orthographies.

Parents can help their children learn to read. The effectiveness of parents' help, however, varies according to the type of parent-child activities. This book contains a summary of what scientific research says about how children learn to read and write.

Focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. This book reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature but also textually-constituted, showing how various social-scientific methodologies employ the resources of ordinary language.

The Rights of the Reader grew from celebrated French writer Daniel Pennac's experiences of teaching in challenging schools. This is a translation of this edition.

Explores the possibilities for the wider circulation and broader application of central dimensions of the early literacy studies. This work covers many aspects of literacy and social history and their respective relation to religion and gender.

Arguing for a reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice, this volume plays close attention to the plethora of objects which children constantly produce: drawings, cuttings-out, writings and collages.

This is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. It makes a timely and important contribution to literary practices - essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.

Stories linked to the specific stages in the Alpha to Omega course for thoses with special needs, so students can practise what they have learnt. The books become progressively more difficult as students move through the programme, enabling students to develop literacy skills as they read.

Organized into nine chapters, this text is designed to help educators increase their proficiency in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities.

The significance of writing in medieval Celtic societies, c. 400-c. 1500.