Full Description
This book brings the vision of a student-centered classroom to life through clear illustrations of guiding principles, balanced with examples of real teachers in real classrooms with real children, many of whom are English learners. Engaging, readable, and practical, Teaching Language Arts is built on a strong theoretical and research base, and illustrated and clarified with real-life examples of children and teachers from today's diverse classrooms. Written to reflect cutting-edge theory, new research, the latest policies, the new Common Core State Standards, and best practices in the rapidly changing world of language arts instruction, the book uses a number of practical aids to bring the concepts alive, among them the unique, highly popular "Snapshots" of real teachers and students, which demonstrate the many skills required to become an effective teacher in today's challenging and diverse classrooms.
Contents
Special Features
Preface
Language Arts: Learning and Teaching
Language Arts: Assessing and Differentiating Instruction
Integrated Teaching with Literature
Language Development and Emergent Literacy
Engaging English Learners
Reading
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Viewing and Visually Representing
Spelling
Grammar, Punctuation, and Handwriting
Reading and Writing Literary Texts
Reading and Writing Informational Texts
References
Subject Index
Appendix: A Month-by-Month Guide to Integrated Teaching with Literature
