Reading: eBooks
This guide provides starting points for research in Reading.
ebrary
eBook Central and e-Book Collections are a collection of databases that contain digitized books that you can read online. Use your #900 number to gain access.
- eBook Central This link opens in a new windowChoose from 810,000 ebooks and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers on one platform. ProQuest Ebook Central offers titles from hundreds of trusted publishers on one modern, intuitive platform. Its mobile-optimized design lets researchers get “anytime access” to the content they need – from a single chapter to an entire book.
Adult Literacy eBooks
Dimensions of Adult Learning by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781000256772Publication Date: 2020-07-31Adult education has never been more important or urgent than it is today.
Improving Adult Literacy Instruction by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780309262248Publication Date: 2012-09-10Virtually everyone needs a high level of literacy in both print and digital media to negotiate most aspects of 21st century life-succeeding in a competitive job market, supporting a family, navigating health information, and participating in civic activities.
Teaching Adult Literacy: a Teacher Education Handbook by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780335239740Publication Date: 2010-01-02Are you teaching or training to teach literacy to adult learners? Do you want to update and deepen your practice?
eBooks for Literacy
Building Student Literacy Through Sustained Silent Reading by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781416603344Publication Date: 2005-01-01Steve Gardiner, a high school English teacher, describes how sustained silent reading can help students of all abilities and backgrounds improve their reading skills.
Rebuilding the Foundation by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781935543510Publication Date: 2011-11-09Teaching reading is a complex task without a simple formula for developing quality instruction.- Literacy and Libraries by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780838999165Publication Date: 2001-01-01One component of ALA's "Literacy in Libraries across America" initiative (funded in part by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund), this book was conceived to help support library-based literacy programs.
Precursors of Functional Literacy by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9789027296108Publication Date: 2002-11-18The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors.
eBooks for Reading
Teaching the Brain to Read by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781416607946Publication Date: 2008-12-01Neurologist Judy Willis connects classroom practice to the neurology of reading and provides whole-class and individualized activities, lessons, and units that you can use in every grade and subject to help all students become better readers.
Infotext by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780887510762Publication Date: 2004-04-19When students encounter difficulties while reading textbooks, their first instinct is often to blame themselves - and their lack of reading proficiency.
