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Product Description: Language and communication are important to mathematics just as they are to the other content areas. Mathematical Literacy is a powerful resource that introduces you to a wide spectrum of strategies and approaches for building students' facility in mathematical communication...read more
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9780325011233 | Heinemann, January 23, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Language and communication are important to mathematics just as they are to the other content areas.

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This clear, reader-friendly book is carefully designed to help readers gain confidence and acquire competence in their academic writing abilities. It focuses on real people as they write and actively involves readers in the writing process. The authors' innovative approach encourages reflection on how professional writing initiatives connect to the personal self. For pre-service and in-service teachers, graduate students, school administrators, educational specialists, and all others involved in the educational enterprise, effective writing is important to professional success. Organized to help the reader move progressively and confidently forward as a writer of academic prose, Doing Academic Writing in Education: Connecting the Personal and the Professional features: *Activities to engage readers in connecting their writing endeavors to their personal selves, and in discovering their own writing attitudes, behaviors, strengths, and problem areas; *Practical applications to inform and support the reader's writing initiatives-including opportunities to engage in invention strategies, to begin a draft, to revise and edit a piece of writing that is personally and professionally important, and to record reflections about writing; *The voices of the authors and of graduate students who are pursuing a variety of academic writing tasks-to serve as models for the reader's writing endeavors; and *Writing samples and personal stories about writing shared by experts in various contexts-offering hints about conditions, self-reflections, and habits that help them write effectively. All students and professionals in the field of education will welcome the distinctive focus in this book on connecting the personal and the professional, and the wealth of practical applications and opportunities for reflection it provides.
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9780805848397 | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, June 16, 2005, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This clear, reader-friendly book is carefully designed to help readers gain confidence and acquire competence in their academic writing abilities.

Paperback:

9780805848403 | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, June 7, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This clear, reader-friendly book is carefully designed to help readers gain confidence and acquire competence in their academic writing abilities.

Miscellaneous:

9781410613417 | Routledge, July 28, 2005, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: This text gives prospective and practicing teachers a comprehensive understanding of how to teach multiple literacies in elementary and middle school classrooms. All of the literacies--dance, music, visual arts, popular culture, media, and computer technologies--are integrated with reading and writing...read more
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9780805839456 | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, March 1, 2003, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: This text gives prospective and practicing teachers a comprehensive understanding of how to teach multiple literacies in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Miscellaneous:

9781410607522, titled "Integrating Multiple Literacies in K-8 Classrooms: Cases Commentaries and Practical Applications" | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc, March 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | also contains Integrating Multiple Literacies in K-8 Classrooms: Cases, Commentaries, and Practical Applications

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Product Description: Innovative and practical, this text helps prepare teachers to support the literacy learning needs of all children in grades K-6, including academically, linguistically, and culturally diverse students. It features original teaching cases written by preservice teachers enrolled in field-based reading/language arts methods courses, accompanied by commentaries written by experienced teacher educators and skilled classroom teachers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780805829884 | Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Inc, November 1, 1999, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Innovative and practical, this text helps prepare teachers to support the literacy learning needs of all children in grades K-6, including academically, linguistically, and culturally diverse students.

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