Literacy practices have changed over the past several years to incorporate modes of representation much broader than language alone, in which the textual is also related to the visual, the audio, the spatial, etc. This book focuses on research and instructional practices necessary for integrating an expanded view of literacy in the classroom that…

This manual describes, in both Spanish and English, activities used in a high school equivalency course for Spanish-speaking adolescent mothers and pregnant adolescents. It contains 13 writing activities, one integrated social studies/science activity, five social studies exercises, and one math and three reading/writing activities. Each is…

The four 1996 issues of the journal, written entirely in Spanish and intended for reading teachers, include articles on these topics: design of the school and classroom environment for reading; a university experiment in cooperative learning and learning strategies; use of portfolios for evaluation of student work; evaluation of reading…