Bøger af Tiffany A. Flowers

Composing Print, Digital, and Multimodal Texts in Classrooms provides pre-service and practicing teachers in grades K-8 with an innovative approach to teaching language arts in the 21st century that supports literacy goals and encourages multimodal composition. The text is grounded in research, including proper theoretical foundations and current frameworks in the field. The chapters are organized around national literacy standards for instruction, as well as current trends in the field. Opening chapters explore traditional versus nontraditional ways to teach students writing skills, English language arts, writer's workshop, genre workshops, genre study, and the creation of collaborative writing communities. Additional chapters provide various strategies for writing across the curriculum, small group writing instruction, minilessons, and standard classroom and community writing practices. Readers learn about social justice composing, which includes emphasis on blogging, critical media literacy, and critical literacies. The text offers strategies for revision and editing with focus on written and digital feedback. The closing chapter underscores the importance of writing assessment. Throughout, readers are provided with literature recommendations, lesson plans, reflection questions, and activities to deepen the learning experience. Designed to support contemporary literacy development, Composing Print, Digital, and Multimodal Texts in Classrooms is an essential resource for courses and programs in education.

Beyond the Basics: Children's Literature for the Elementary Teacher provides readers with a comprehensive guide to children's literature. Readers learn about the foundations of children's literature, how to engage with it, explore various genres for quality literacy and teaching tools, and essential practices with diverse perspectives in literature. The book's first section introduces readers to many foundational elements of children's literature including key considerations in selecting texts for children, characteristics of books for each developmental level, book awards, and explanations of various text formats. The second section covers practical classroom activities such as read-alouds, literature circles, and responding to literature. The third section delves into major literary genres including traditional literature, realistic fiction, historical fiction, modern fantasy, informational texts, biographies, and poetry. The final section emphasizes the importance of including diverse perspectives and strategies for handling controversial texts. Each chapter features guiding questions, key terms, introductions, discussion questions, extension activities, implications for practitioners, and recommended texts for classrooms. The concepts in this text create a valuable resource for methods courses and teacher professional development in elementary education, reading education, and children's literature.

Nandi and Kyande are twin time travelers who live on post-Earth 2050. An evil scientist named Cecil Hawthorne controlled this new planet. He was once considered to be a hero until he secretly genetically engineered superhumans known as Lodes to enforce laws against the world's population. The twins Nandi and Kyande were both born into the human rebellion against the Lodes. In the second book in this series, Kyande goes back in time with upgrades to his previous enhancements to ensure the timeline stays intact. This time Kyande travels back in time to prevent the Lodes from capturing the scientist who helped start the rebellion. As he enters the past, the lodes are already back in the year 2025. Will Kyande succeed? Or will the timeline be changed forever?