TY - BOOK AU - Humphrey,Sally TI - Academic literacies in the middle years: a framework for enhancing teacher knowledge and student achievement SN - 9781138649958 (hardback) AV - LB1631 .H85 2016 U1 - 428.00712 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Language arts (Middle school) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; 1; The Context of Middle Years Literacy Research --; 2; Design and Foundations of a Metalanguage Framework --; 3; Designing Literacy interventions --; 4; Exploring Narratives as Prose and Drama Script --; 5; Writing Responses to Analyse Cultural Works --; 6; Factorial Explanations in History, Science and the Social Sciences --; 7; Persuading Audiences in the Academic Domain --; 8; Persuasion for Civic Purposes --; 9; Towards Design Principles for Middle Years Literacies --; Index. N2 - "The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers’ understandings of how language functions in their academic disciplines. This framework—a 4 x 4 metalinguistic toolkit—is informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and international educational research on academic and disciplinary literacies." --Publisher's website. ER -