Search results for ""Author Katherine Luongo""
Pembroke Publishing Ltd Cornerstones to Early Literacy: Childhood Experiences That Promote Learning in Reading, Writing, and Oral Language
How can we build a strong literacy foundation for children? This book appreciates that learning and language development start with the play episodes, oral language practices, word play activities, print encounters, reading events, and writing experiences that children engage in during the early years of life. Filled with rich language activities, The Cornerstones to Early Literacy shows teachers how to create active learning experiences that are essential to building early literacy. This comprehensive handbook is organized around the following topics: Play Experiences – Understanding the early stages of learning and all aspects of the play–literacy connection Oral Language — Supporting opportunities for child talk with suggested conversation starters and events that involve personal timelines and storytelling Language Awareness and Word Play — Creating a balanced approach to language learning using games and activities that involve literature, music, choral speaking, sound games, and more Print Encounters — Discovering, reproducing, and creating all forms of environmental print Reading Events — Integrating read-aloud and shared book experiences with proven strategies for supporting and observing young readers Writing Experiences — Identifying early writing characteristics and techniques for moving children along in their writing This step-by-step guide to the early years also offers practical pathways to literacy that incorporate the home, art, and computers.
£27.86
Ohio University Press Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories and the Politics of Belonging
Barack Obama’s political ascendancy has focused considerable global attention on the history of Kenya generally and the history of the Luo community particularly. From politicos populating the blogosphere and bookshelves in the U.S and Kenya, to tourists traipsing through Obama’s ancestral home, a variety of groups have mobilized new readings of Kenya’s past in service of their own ends. Through narratives placing Obama into a simplified, sweeping narrative of anticolonial barbarism and postcolonial “tribal” violence, the story of the United States president’s nuanced relationship to Kenya has been lost amid stereotypical portrayals of Africa. At the same time, Kenyan state officials have aimed to weave Obama into the contested narrative of Kenyan nationhood. Matthew Carotenuto and Katherine Luongo argue that efforts to cast Obama as a “son of the soil” of the Lake Victoria basin invite insights into the politicized uses of Kenya’s past. Ideal for classroom use and directed at a general readership interested in global affairs, Obama and Kenya offers an important counterpoint to the many popular but inaccurate texts about Kenya’s history and Obama’s place in it as well as focused, thematic analyses of contemporary debates about ethnic politics, “tribal” identities, postcolonial governance, and U.S. African relations.
£22.99
