Dimensions of Literacy: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings
...the new edition has made a substantial attempt at bring together various aspects of literacy studies and literacy education in one volume that is more systematic, comprehensive, inclusive, analytical, thought-provoking and more instructive....Kucer deserves accolades for the several new features of this new edition....Although the target audience of this book are mainly literacy educators, researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and school teachers in first-language (L1) settings...most of the chapters are equally useful in L2 contexts.—The Reading MatrixWritten primarily for teachers and teacher educators, 'Dimensions of Literacy: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing in School Settings', 2nd edition provides remarkably comprehensive, balanced, and pedagogical explanations of research and theory about learning and teaching written language. The book concludes with a description of how each of the dimensions might be used in classroom instruction. This chapter is an admirable summary of the the rest of the book, and illustrates the extensive range of knowledge teachers must bring to literacy instruction.—TESL-EJ