Synopses & Reviews
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.
Substantially updated and reorganized to reflect current issues and development in teaching language arts, this new Seventh Edition gives readers:
- Integrated Teaching with Literature features that provides a framework for planning standards-based teaching linked to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.
- Engaging English Learners boxes with specific ideas for teaching English learners.
- Media and Technology boxes that help connect chapter content to current technology standards and practices.
- Two new Assessment Toolboxes.
- A new Chapter 12, Reading and Writing Literary Texts.
- A new Chapter 13, Reading and Writing Informational Texts.
Review
"Dr. Cox is to be commended for writing such a practical, useful, informative and interesting textbook." - Nancy L. Gibney, University of Detroit Mercy
"Theoretically sound, current research, and very understandable-- the students like this text and call it a 'keeper.'" - Deborah Hamm, California State University, Long Beach
Synopsis
KEY BENEFIT Balancing clear illustrations of guiding principles with example of real teachers in real classrooms with real children, this book brings the vision of a student-centered classroom to life in an engaging, readable, student-friendly, and practical way.
KEY TOPICS Cutting-edge theory; new research; the latest educational policies; best practices in language arts instruction; unique "Snapshots"of real teachers and students in real classrooms; assessing and differentiating instruction; implementing the new Common Core State Standards; teaching English learners; integrated teaching with literature across the curriculum; teaching in a Web 2.0 world.
MARKET Primarily a text for language arts methods courses, the book is filled with real-life examples and the latest theory and research, which is particularly helpful to new classroom teachers.
Synopsis
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.
About the Author
Carole Cox, Ph.D., teaches at California State University, Long Beach, where she was named the Outstanding Professor in 2001. She received her B.A. from UCLA with a double major in French and Political Science, and an elementary teaching credential. She has taught elementary school in Los Angeles, California, and Madison, Wisconsin, and received her Ph.D. in Education at the University of Minnesota. At Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and California State University, Long Beach, Carole has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in language arts, reading, and children’s literature, and published articles, book chapters, and other books with Pearson including Engaging English Learners: Exploring Literature, Developing Literacy, and Differentiating Instruction (Cox & Boyd-Batstone, 2009). Professor Cox’s research has focused on children’s stance toward film and literature from a reader-response perspective, specifically Louise Rosenblatt’s transactional model of the reading process.
Table of 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