Books & eBooks
Books about Literacy
Scholarly books contain in-depth information and can cover a topic more thoroughly than articles can.
See the tips for searching our catalog and the suggested book titles.
Search the Library Catalog
How to Find Books in the Catalog
Note for Distance Learners
If you are on a satellite campus or taking classes online, you have the same access to library resources as students on the Alva campus. That includes books in our print collection, which we can deliver by mail or courier. See the Interlibrary Loan page for details:
- Interlibrary Loan
The Interlibrary Loan Department can order books from other libraries or ship our books to other locations.
Suggested Books
The following is a sample from our catalog.
Books
- Handbook of Reading Research (3 vols.) byCall Number: 428.4072 H19172ISBN: 9780582281196Publication Date:
The Handbook of Reading Research is the research handbook for the field. Each volume has come to define the field for the period of time it covers … When taken as a set, the … volumes provide a definitive history of reading research.
- Reading Don’t Fix No Chevys byCall Number: 371.823 Sm626rISBN: 9780867095098Publication Date:
The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English education and in the teaching of reading, worked with a very diverse group of young men to understand how they use literacy and what conditions promote it.
- Teaching Reading Skills in Secondary Schools byCall Number: 428.40712 Oℓ8tISBN: 9780700222551Publication Date:
A compilation of essays on literacy instruction in secondary education.
eBooks
- Building Literacy in Social Studies byISBN: 9781416606277Publication Date:
This book demonstrates how teachers can help their students understand their social studies texts, leading them to become successful readers, critical thinkers, and active citizens.
- Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents byISBN: 9781416618386Publication Date:
We know that literacy is the key to learning in school, yet millions of middle and high school students lack the literacy skills they need to succeed. What can educators do? In Creating Literacy-Rich Schools for Adolescents, authors Gay Ivey and Douglas Fisher make a compelling case that all teachers—across the content areas—have a role to play in students’ development of literacy, which they define as reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
- Interventions for Reading Problems byISBN: 9781462519408Publication Date:
This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure. Step-by-step strategies target key areas of literacy development: phonological awareness, fluency, and comprehension.
- Literacy Across the Curriculum byISBN: 9781612291437Publication Date:
Discusses the integration of literacy into several content areas, including English, social science, and physical education.
- Pump It Up: Literacy Activities for the Classroom byISBN: 9789463006125Publication Date:
The book contributes to improving teaching and learning in a few ways: First, it provides in-service teachers with step-by-step, ready-to-use strategies that facilitate their students’ comprehension and use of content area reading material; second, it aims to help pre-service teachers learn to implement hands-on lessons for their content area; third, apart from strategies offered to the content area teachers in the mainstream, the book also provides teachers of English language learners with strategies that address the literacy needs of their diverse students.
- Writing Science byISBN: 9780203209936Publication Date:
This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function of language across a variety of levels including lexiogrammar, discourse semantics, register, genre and ideology. Special attention is paid to how this knowledge is imparted.