
Teaching Language Arts
A Student-Centered Classroom
Carole Cox(Author)
Pearson (Publisher)
6th Edition
Published on 25. July 2007
Book
Hardback
576 pages
978-0-205-54260-4 (ISBN)
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Description
In the Sixth Edition, Carole Cox demonstrates how to work within a student-and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.
Renowned for its authoritative, comprehensive coverage of the contemporary language arts classroom, the sixth edition of Teaching Language Arts provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction that includes many examples from today's classrooms. The sixth edition stays on the cutting edge with new snapshots of real teachers that bring the content to life for students, and fresh, thought-provoking lesson plans and teaching ideas.
Renowned for its authoritative, comprehensive coverage of the contemporary language arts classroom, the sixth edition of Teaching Language Arts provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction that includes many examples from today's classrooms. The sixth edition stays on the cutting edge with new snapshots of real teachers that bring the content to life for students, and fresh, thought-provoking lesson plans and teaching ideas.
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Edition
6th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 240 mm
Thickness: 300 mm
Weight
980 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-54260-4 (9780205542604)
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08/2013
7th Edition
Pearson
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Carole Cox
Teaching Language Arts
A Student- and Response-Centered Classroom (with Student Activities Planner)
Book
08/2004
5th Edition
Pearson
€84.36
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Person
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.
Content
Ch. 1 Language Arts: Learning and Teaching
Ch. 2 Language Arts: Assessing and Differentiating Instruction
Ch. 3 Literature and Integrated Teaching
Ch. 4 First- and Second-Language Development
Ch. 5 Listening, Talking, and Drama
Ch. 6 Emergent Literacy and Biliteracy
Ch. 7 The Writing Process
Ch. 8 The Reading Process
Ch. 9 Genres of Reading and Writing
Ch. 10 Writing Conventions: Spelling
Ch. 11 Writing Conventions: Grammar, Punctuation, and Handwriting
Ch. 12 Viewing and Visually Representing
Ch. 13 Technology in the Classroom
Ch. 14 Language Across the Curriculum
Appendix: A Year of Thematic Teaching
Ch. 2 Language Arts: Assessing and Differentiating Instruction
Ch. 3 Literature and Integrated Teaching
Ch. 4 First- and Second-Language Development
Ch. 5 Listening, Talking, and Drama
Ch. 6 Emergent Literacy and Biliteracy
Ch. 7 The Writing Process
Ch. 8 The Reading Process
Ch. 9 Genres of Reading and Writing
Ch. 10 Writing Conventions: Spelling
Ch. 11 Writing Conventions: Grammar, Punctuation, and Handwriting
Ch. 12 Viewing and Visually Representing
Ch. 13 Technology in the Classroom
Ch. 14 Language Across the Curriculum
Appendix: A Year of Thematic Teaching