Tag: Disciplinary

Free Download William E. Lewis, "Literacy Instruction with Disciplinary Texts: Strategies for Grades 6-12"
English | ISBN: 1462544681 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 4 MB
To develop strong disciplinary literacy skills, middle and high school students need to engage with diverse types of challenging texts in every content area. This book provides a blueprint for constructing literacy-rich instructional units in English language arts, science, and social studies. The authors describe how to design interconnected text sets and plan lessons that support learning and engagement before, during, and after reading. Presented are ways to build academic vocabulary and background knowledge, teach research-based comprehension strategies, and guide effective discussions and text-based writing activities. Chapters also cover how to teach students to write argumentative, informative, and narrative essays, and to conduct discipline-specific inquiry. Special features include sample text sets and 24 reproducible planning templates and other teaching tools; purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Free Download William G. Brozo, "Disciplinary and Content Literacy for Today’s Adolescents: Honoring Diversity and Building Competence"
English | ISBN: 1462530087 | 2017 | 430 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Well established as a clear, comprehensive course text in five prior editions, this book has now been extensively revised, with a focus on disciplinary literacy. It offers a research-based framework for helping students in grades 6-12 learn to read, write, and communicate academic content and to develop the unique literacy, language, and problem-solving skills required by the different disciplines. In an engaging, conversational style, William G. Brozo presents effective instruction and assessment practices. Special attention is given to adaptations to support diverse populations, including English language learners. Pedagogical features include chapter-opening questions plus new case studies, classroom dialogues, practical examples, sample forms, and more. (Prior edition title: Content Literacy for Today’s Adolescents, Fifth Edition.)

Free Download Content Matters: A Disciplinary Literacy Approach to Improving Student Learning By Stephanie M. McConachie, Anthony R. Petrosky, Lauren B. Resnick
2009 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0470434112 | EPUB | 3 MB
An authoritative guide for improving teaching, learning, and literacy in content area classroomsThis book introduces teachers to the Disciplinary Literacy instructional framework developed by the Institute for Learning, University of Pittsburgh. Grounded in the Principles of Learning developed by acclaimed educator Lauren Resnick, the framework is designed to prepare students, grades 6 and up, to master the rigorous academic content learning required for college success. Unlike ‘generic’ teaching models, the framework is specifically tailored for each of the content disciplines. Highly practical, the book shows teachers how to integrate literacy development and thinking practices into their routine content instruction, with separate chapters devoted to math, science, history, and English/language arts. The book also shows how school instructional leaders can support teachers in learning and using this instructional approach.Offers an innovative approach for improving literacy, thinking, and content learning in secondary studentsIncludes detailed instructional guidance plus numerous classroom examples of lessons, dialogs, and teaching routinesFeatures chapters on each of the content areas-math, science, language arts, and social sciencesProvides leadership guidance in implementing the methodForeword written by internationally acclaimed educator and cognitive scientist Lauren Resnick

Free Download Isabel David, "Crisis, Austerity, and Transformation: How Disciplinary Neoliberalism Is Changing Portugal"
English | ISBN: 1498543871 | 2018 | 226 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Discussions of the recent austerity measures in Southern Europe as a response to the sovereign debt crisis have been usually framed in terms of their economic impact. However, the general impoverishment of these countries has induced other massive social and political changes, a fact which is ignored in the literature. This volume seeks to fill this gap and break ground by analyzing these trends in the Portuguese context.

Free Download Chris Jones, "Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State (The State of Welfare)"
English | 1999 | pages: 232 | ISBN: 0415182905, 0415182891 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
In a forward looking appraisal of the welfare state, Poverty, Welfare and the Disciplinary State examines such issues as: *the current dynamics of poverty in Britain, drawing on similar developments in Europe and the US *the major areas of social policy within which this abandonment and demonisation of the poor is taking place *the historical antecendents to this relationship between the state and the poor *the creation and expansion of a ‘welfare’ state that characterised the era of social democracy until the mid-1970s and from the point of view of the poor, was limited and conditional *the ideology and organisation of the New Right *the new terrain on which the struggle over the future of welfare and social policy must take place.

Free Download Multi-Disciplinary Applications of Fog Computing
by Acharjya, Debi Prasanna;Kauser, P. Ahmed;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1668444666 | 300 pages | True PDF EPUB | 31.28 MB