Picturing scenes, events, settings, characters, and ideas is essential to reading comprehension - but not all students know how to do it. In this amazing book, a noted educator shows teachers dozens of engaging, interactive techniques that turn reading into a highly visual, enjoyable experience for [...]

Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art, envir[...]

The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English edu[...]

Ett viktigt syfte fo¨r skolans litteraturundervisning a¨r att vidga elevernas syn pa° egna och andras erfarenheter. Vi ga°r in i karakta¨rernas liv, ka¨nner med dem, ta¨nker med dem och oroar oss o¨ver de val de sta°r info¨r. Med dramat fa°r de verktyg att genomleva littera¨ra texter. De[...]