Handbook of research on teaching literacy through the communicative and visual arts
By: edited by James Flood, Shirley Brice Heath, and Diane Lapp
Contributors: International Reading Association
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 936
ISBN-13: 9781410611161
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Study and teaching; Communication; Communication Studies; Handbooks, manuals; Research
Description: In an era characterized by the rapid evolution of the concept of literacy, this handbook focuses on multiple ways in which learners gain access to knowledge and skills. It explores the possibilities of broadening current conceptualizations of literacy to include the full array of the communicative arts.
Notes: "A project of the International Reading Association."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Paul Messaris; title: Part I. Theoretical Bases for Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching; title: Literacy for the Information Age / Renee Hobbs; title: Television as a Learning Environment : A Theory of Synergy / Susan B. Neuman; title: TV Viewing, Reading and Media Literacy / Roger Desmond; title: Television and Language Learning / Michael Willmorth; title: Visual Communication Skills and Media Literacy / Michael Griffin, Dona Schwartz; title: Visual Intelligence and Analogical Thinking / Paul Messaris; title: Visual Intelligence and Spatial Aptitudes / Georgette Page; title: Exploring Future Media / John Carey; title: Balancing Act : Using Drama to Even the Exchange of Information in the Classroom / Jennifer Lynn Wolf; title: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Literacy : Current Theory and Research in Computer-Based Reading and Writing / David Reinking, Linda Labbo; title: Part II. Methods of Inquiry in Communicative and Visual Arts Teaching; title: Introduction : Explorations in Crossing Boundaries / Donna E. Alvermann; title: Ethnography for the Study of Performance in the Classroom / Steven Z. Athanases; title: Transcription and Representation in Literacy Research / Carolyn D. Baker; title: Methodology in Teacher Research : Three Cases / James F. Baumann, Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff, JoBeth Allen; title: Assessing Development and Learning Over Time / Robert Calfee; title: Children Out of Bounds : The Power of Case Studies in Expanding Visions of Literacy Development / Anne Haas Dyson; title: Ethnography and Ethnographers of and in Education : A Situated Perspective / Judith Green, David Bloome; title: Remaking Sense, Reshaping Inquiry : Feminist Metaphors and a Literacy of the Possible / Lorn Neilsen; title: Making "Collaboration" Problematic in Collaborative School-University Research : Studying with Urban Teacher Researchers to Transform Literacy Curriculum Genres / Christine C. Pappas; title: Poetic Representation / Laurel Richardson; title: Alternative Methodology for Diagnostic Assessment of Written and Verbal Responses to Works of Art / Carol Susann Stavropoulos; title: A National Policy Perspective on Research Intersections between Literacy and the Visual/Communicative Arts / Anne P. Sweet; title: Learning with Multiple Symbol Systems : Possibilities, Realities, Paradigm Shifts and Developmental Considerations / Robert J. Tierney; title: Part III. Research on Language Learners in Families, Communities, and Classrooms; title: Introduction / Victoria Chou; title: Telling Their Stories, Singing Their Songs / Mara Krechevsky, Ulla C. Malkus; title: Deaf Children as Literacy Learners : Tom, Robbie, and Paul / Claire L. Ramsey; title: Youth Genre in the Classroom : Can Children's and Teachers' Cultures Meet? / Colette Daiute; title: Bridging Home and School Literacies : Models for Culturally Responsive Teaching, a Case for African-American English / Carol D. Lee; title: Student Conversations : Provocative Echoes / Eleanor Binstock; title: Street Literacy / Dwight Conquergood; title: Intergenerational Discourses : Life Texts of African-American Mothers and Daughters / Vivian L. Gadsden; title: Community Literacy : From Home to Work and Back / Gary Pharness, Lee Weinstein; title: A Grass Roots Think Tank : Linking Writing and Community Building / Hal Adams; title: Part IV. Research on Language Teachers : Conditions and Contexts; title: Introduction / Dorothy S. Strickland; title: Preparing Language Arts Teachers in a Time of Reform / Pamela L. Grossman, Sheila W. Valencia, Frederick L. Hamel; title: Becoming a Member of a Professional Language Learning Community / Janet L. Olson; title: Teacher Preparation in the Language Arts : A Synthesis / Josefina Villamil Tinajero, Ana Huerta-Macias; title: Exploring Voices of the Language Arts Universe : From Tin Can Telephones to Satellite Missions / Debra Bayles, Nancy Roser; title: Teachers Reflecting on Practice / Richard T. Vacca, JoAnne L. Vacca, Beverly Bruneau; title: Putting It in Perspective : Administrating Art Education for Literacy / Richard P. Mesa; title: Preparing Preservice Teachers to Teach Multicultural Literature / Arlette Ingram Willis, Violet J. Harris; title: Part V. Expanding Instructional Environments : Teaching, Learning, and Assessing the Communicative and Visual Art; title: Introduction / Nancy Roser; title: Instructional Environments for Language and Learning : Considerations for Young Children / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Diane H. Tracey; title: Dramatic Play, Context, and Children's Communicative Behavior / A.D. Pellegrini; title: Drama Worlds : Places of the Heart, Head, Voice, and Hand in Dramatic Interpretation / Shelby Wolf, Brian Edmiston, Patricia Enciso; title: From Storytelling to Getting On-Line : Language and Literacy Opportunities in the Elementary School / Marilyn C. Scala, Virginia C. Schroder; title: "What Have You Learned?" : Co-constructing the Meaning of Time / Gordon Wells, Gen Ling Chang-Wells; title: The Literary Text : Its Future in the Classroom / Richard L. Venezky; title: Instructional Environments for Language and Literacy : Considerations for the Adult Learner / Thomas G. Sticht; title: Film, Video, and Books : Some Considerations for Learning and Teaching / Lawrence Baines; title: Electronic Discourse Communities : Theory, Practice, and Research / Wayne M. Butler; title: The Future of Television in the Home and in the Classroom : Evidence for Impact / Joan M. Shiring; title: Newspapers and On-Line Text : Essentials of the Literacy Environment / Karen D. Wood, Jim Nicholson; title: Reading Comics, the Invisible Art / Shirley Brice Heath, Vikram Bhagat; title: Accountability through Assessment and Instruction / Roger Fan, Eugene Jongsma; title: Part VI. Research Perspectives on Curricular, Extracurricular, and Policy Perspectives; title: Introduction / James R. Squire; title: Who Determines Policy, Power, and Politics and What Are Their Attitudes? / Robert E. Shafer; title: Alternative Assessment, Literacy Education, and School Reform / Louise C. Wilkinson, Elaine R. Silliman; title: Setting Opportunity-to-Learn Standards / C. Jane Hydrick; title: State Curricular Frameworks and Standards in the Communicative Arts / Sharon O'Neal, Susan Strecker; title: Reading Recovery : A Summary of Research / Gay Su Pinnell; title: International Perspectives on the Reading Recovery Program / Marie M. Clay; title: Change through Collaboration : The Boston University-Chelsea Public Schools Partnership in Literacy / Jeanne R. Paratore, Rosdmina Indrisano; title: Teaching the Delayed Reader : The Benchmark School Model / Irene W. Gaskins; title: Effective Literacy Instruction : Findings of the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program / Kathryn H. Au, Claire L. Asam; title: California's Literature-Based Curriculum and the California Literature Project / Phillip C. Gonzales, Mel Grubb; title: The Introduction of the National Curriculum for English / John Richmond; title: Cross-National Studies of Literacy / Warwick Elley; title: Literature Curriculum : Issues of Definition and Control / Richard L. Allington, Sherry Guice; title: Ten Years of Research : Achievements of the National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy / Sarah Warshauer Freedman ... [et al.]; title: Classroom Contexts Promoting Literacy Engagement / John T. Guthrie ... [et al.]; title: Standards in the Language Arts / P. David Pearson; title: Developing State Standards in English Language Arts : A Case Study / Karen K. Wixson, Charles W. Peters, Sheila A. Potter; title: Part VII. Voices from the Field; title: Introduction / Lee Galda, Bernice E. Cullinan; title: Like Happy Dreams : Integrating Visual Arts, Writing, and Reading / Ann Alejandro; title: Symbolism : A Third-Grade Experience / Michelle Carey Clark; title: Voices from the Field : Constructing Meaning from Illustrations / Richard M. Kerper; title: We Are the Music Makers : Helping Children Express Themselves through the Magic of Poetry / Michael R. Strickland; title: The Eye and the Ear / Jane Yolen; title: Books about Art : A Joyous Vision / Jan Greenberg; title: Sound and Resound / Catherine Paterson; title: An Author Celebrates the Unpredictable Ways of the Illustrator / W. Nikola-Lisa; title: The Visual Arts Made Accessible through Picture Books / Barbara Kiefer; title: Playing against Conventions : The True Story of the Stinky Cheese Man / Steve Tozer, Victoria Chou; title: Reflections : Arthur Moves to TV and CDs / Marc Brown; title: Bringing Arthur to Television / Katfuj Waugh; title: Reading Rainbow and the Joy of Reading / Twila C. Liggett; title: Literacy Goes to the Movies / Lauren L. Wohl; title: "Hoop Dreams" : An Interview with Steven James; title: Producer, Director, Co-editor / Victoria Chou, Steve Tozer; title: Thoughts on Visual Literacy / Philip Yenawine; title: "Songs Capture Something That's Gone and Make It into Something Tangible" : An Interview with Songwriter Caroline Peyton / Josephine Peyton Young; title: Judging by the Cover : How a Magazine Promotes Communicative Literacy / Tamara Hanneman Rubin; title: Words + Pictures = Magic : A Designer Looks at Picture Books / Joy Chu; title: The Changing Face of Literacy : A Publisher's Perspective / Roger R. Rogalin; title: New Directions in Literacy Instruction / Anthony Lucki; title: The Creation of a Basal Program : A Collaborative Effort / Susanne Singleton; title: The Role of Computer Graphics in Literacy Attainment / Barbara Holland Baskin; title: Current Issues and Future Directions / Bertram C. Bruce.