| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
The Jossey-Bass education series |
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Jossey-Bass education series.
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| Note |
"Published in partnership with WestEd." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-268). |
| Contents |
Part I: Literacy and identity -- Part II: Literacy and power -- Part III: How we read -- Part IV: Breaking codes. |
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Literacy and identity : selections describe the different ways people see themselves as readers. "Sharon Cho," from Speaking of reading / Sharon Cho -- "Kevin Clarke," from Speaking of reading / Kevin Clarke -- "Inside out," from The circuit : stories from the life of a migrant child / Francisco Jiménez -- From The acts of King Arthur and his noble knights / John Steinbeck -- "My back pages," from The most wonderful books : writers on discovering the pleasures of reading / Greg Sarris -- "Seis," from Bless me, Ultima / Rudolfo A. Anaya -- "Discovering books," from Black boy : a record of childhood and youth / Richard Wright -- "The gift of reading," from Better than life / Daniel Pennac -- "Coming into language," from Doing time : twenty-five years of prison writing / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- "Silence," from Woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston -- "Aria : a memoir of a bilingual childhood," from Hunger of memory : the education of Richard Rodriguez / Richard Rodriguez -- "Reading has always been my home," from How reading changed my life / Anna Quindlen -- "Brownsville schooldays," from A walker in the city / Alfred Kazin -- Literacy and power : selections show how reading and writing open doors in our lives. "Gary Lee," from Speaking of reading / Gary Lee -- "Two ways to be a warrior," from Luis Rodriguez : writer, community leader, political activist / Michael Schwartz -- "The poets in the kitchen," from Reena and other stories / Paule Marshall -- "Libraries and the attack on illiteracy" / Timothy S. Healy -- "Learning to read," from The autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X, Alex Haley -- "In conversation with Ernest J. Gaines" / Adrianne Bee -- "Learning to read" / Frances E.W. Harper -- "Precious words" / Emily Dickinson -- "Learning to read and write," from Frederick Douglass : narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave / Fredrick Douglass -- "India's literacy miracle" -- "Interrogation," from Son of the revolution / Liang Heng, Judith Shapiro -- "Reign of the reader" / M. Freeman -- How we read : selections describe the different ways our minds work as we try to understand what we read. "Gerald Eisman," from Speaking of reading / Gerald Eisman -- "The voice you hear when you read silently," from New and selected poems / Thomas Lux -- "The birth of an alchemist," from Better than life / Daniel Pennac -- "Watch TV--in your head!" / Jennifer Liu -- "Tuning," from The winter room / Gary Paulsen -- "Superman and me," from The most wonderful books : writers on discovering the pleasures of reading / Sherman Alexie -- "How to mark a book," from The Mercury reader / Mortimer Adler -- "Learning to read," from A history of reading / Alberto Manguel -- "Three wise guys : Un cuento de Navidad/A Christmas story" / Sandra Cisneros -- "The new case for Latin" / Mike Eskenazi -- "No words," from Wild country : outdoor poems for young people / David Harrison -- "Teaching people to hate literature" / Matthew S. -- "Team Xerox" / Chris Taylor -- "Private reading," from A history of reading / Alberto Manguel -- Breaking codes : selections reflect our need to navigate unfamiliar types of texts. "Susan Schulter," from Speaking of reading / Susan Schulter -- "Important : read this first" / Frank Cammuso, Hart Seely -- "The secret language of custom" / Evelyn H. -- "Language heads down the rabbit hole" / John Schwartz -- "Cinematic grammar," from Reading the movies : twelve great films on video and how to teach them / William V. Costanzo -- "Hip-hop becoming a worldwide language for youth resistance" -- "Double-talk" / Rick Bass -- "Technicality," from Science and language links : classroom implications / Beverly Derewianka -- "Comic books," from A book of puzzlements : play and invention with language / Herbert Kohl. |
| Subject |
Reading (Secondary) -- United States.
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Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Lecture (Enseignement secondaire) -- États-Unis.
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Alphabétisation -- Aspect social -- États-Unis.
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Literacy -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00999885
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Reading (Secondary) (OCoLC)fst01090758
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Fielding, Audrey, 1942-
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Schoenbach, Ruth.
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WestEd (Organization)
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| ISBN |
0787965553 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780787965556 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000024217535 |
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NZ1 7296034 |
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