This volume culls scholarship on both what high literacy is and how it is developed. It embraces the call put forth by Langer and Applebee (2016) that high literacy must continue to be our aim and to see more research analyzing and identifying how teachers might promote literacy practices that promote deep thinking around important content. The editors offer a conceptual framework for high literacy that explicates how each component (i.e. reading, writing, dialogic engagement, and epistemi...

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Discover why so many people love to fish, and explore different types of techniques and equipment they use.

Updated for 2020, this book describes the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, life cycle, diet, and reproduction of chickens.

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