Teaching Language Arts: A Student- And Response-Centered Classroom - Hardcover

Cox, Carole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205281370 ISBN 13: 9780205281374

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1998

Synopsis

A text for undergraduate and graduate language arts methods courses, taking a student- and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching. Coverage includes spoken language, literature and reading, written language, and integrated teaching, with special chapters on drama and media literacy. Learning features include examples, lesson plans, discussion questions, and samples of children's drawing and writing, plus graphic organizers of response-themed learning. This third edition offers expanded material on spelling, standards, and useful web sites, plus a softcover schoolyear activities planner. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Language is truly an art, penetrating human life and thought as the basic element of communication and expression. Thus, in order to teach language skills across the curriculum, educators must fully understand the complexities and intricacies of this art form. This book provides educators with the tools for understanding and teaching the art of language while accounting for the cultural and linguistic diversity of todayÕs children. This book emphasizes a student- and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in todayÕs diverse classrooms. In addition to comprehensive explanation, the author discusses these principles through illuminating examples of real teachers in real classrooms involved in the actual implementation of these ideas. Also included in every chapter are ÒAssessment ToolÓ features to provide assessment strategies for field experiences and ÒRipple EffectÓ graphic organizers to illustrate how response-centered learning reaches across the curriculum. Classroom teachers and administrators.

About the Author:

 

Carole Cox, Ph.D., teaches at California State University, Long Beach where she was named the Outstanding Professor in 2001. She taught elementary school in Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin. Students she taught in 3rd-5th grades in the 1960's and 70's and others who participated in a Shakespeare for Children summer program she created in Madison held a reunion for her in 2005 and the Mayor of Madison declared July 2, 2005 Carole Cox Day. Her publications include a textbook Teaching language arts: A student-centered classroom, 6th ed. (Pearson Teacher Education and Development, 2008), and a new book with co-presenter Paul Boyd-Batstone, Engaging English learners: Exploring literature, developing literacy, and differnetiating instsruction (Pearson Teacher Education and Development , 2009), among others. Her research has focused on children's stance towards literature from a reader-response perspective.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0205281370
• ISBN 13: 9780205281374
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 558