Teaching Language Arts: A Student-Centered Classroom

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.

"Theoretically sound, current research, and very understandable-- the students like this text and call it a 'keeper.'" - Deborah Hamm, California State University, Long Beach

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.

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.

Special Features

Preface

1. Language Arts: Learning and Teaching
2. Language Arts: Assessing and Differentiating Instruction
3. Integrated Teaching with Literature
4. Language Development and Emergent Literacy
5. Engaging English Learners
6. Reading
7. Writing
8. Speaking and Listening
9. Viewing and Visually Representing
10. Spelling
11. Grammar, Punctuation, and Handwriting
12. Reading and Writing Literary Texts
13. Reading and  Writing Informational Texts

References

Subject Index

Appendix: A Month-by-Month Guide to Integrated Teaching with Literature