The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when gram
When our students enter middle and high school, the saying goes that they stop learning to read and start reading to learn. Then why is literacy still a struggl
Elaborates a theory of reading developed in an earlier book, by offering a larger discussion of what constitatutes the act of literacy engagement and the ways t
Much of teachers’ attention these days is focused on having students read closely to ferret out the author’s intended meaning and the devices used to convey
Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass medi