Product Details

• Author: Jennifer Rowsell
• Grade Range: K-6

• Media: 160 pp/paper
• ISBN: 978-157110-491-5
• Item No.: WEB-8207

A Pembroke Publishers Title

Family Literacy Experiences explores the power of the home-school connection, and shows teachers how to make the world outside the classroom an integral part of compelling instruction.

This book offers a multitude of effective and practical ways that teachers can use what already excites and motivates students. It invites teachers to recognize the rich diversity of literacy experiences outside the classroom and create a parallel classroom where meaningful reading and writing takes place.

This unique resource is organized by genre, and each chapter examines:

• revealing moments that demonstrate the genre in action;
• inherent skills of each genre and how to build them into classroom instruction;
• simple activities that involve students in purposeful learning;
• an easy assessment frame that addresses the specifics of the genre.

Rooted in the latest research and incorporating the powerful voices of education leaders, students, parents, and teachers, this book provides practical guides for using what excited students to transform classroom learning.

Table of Contents

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Contents
Foreword by Dorothy Strickland
Introduction
I. Bridging Home and School

1. What is Family Literacy? Invitations to Bridge Home and School
2. Rethinking Literacy
Multiple Modes and Literacies
3. Texts
Shifts in Cueing Systems
Text Selection
4. Funds of Knowledge and Culture
Home Literacies
Culture
Cultural Resources
5. Using Multiliteracies to Teach
Literacy by Design
Types of Activities
Writing and Technology
Incorporating Family Literacy into Your School
II. New Texts, New Skills

The Internet by Isabel Pederson
Growing Up with Television
Music between Generations by Anne Burke
Comic Books: Heroes and Villains
Online Chatting and Texting by Louis Chen
Newspapers: Artifacts of a Bigger World
Rap and Hip-Hop Culture by Marika Autrand
Video Games
Collector Cards by Brenda Stein Dzaldov
Magazines: Words and Images
Blogs: Collaborating Online by Erica C. Boling
Movies as More Than Entertainment
Zines: A Voice on Issues by Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau

Concluding Thoughts: Meeting Students Halfway
Afterword by Kate Pahl
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

Jennifer Rowsell
Jennifer currently teachers undergraduate and graduate courses in literacy education and conducts research studies in the area of new literacies, multimodality, family literacy, and multiliteracies.
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