The authors reveal children as growing, effective, sensitive users of language. Before any formal schooling, they have already had much experience with language - opportunities to compare, contrast, and use it in a wide variety of settings. Children are adaptive, and are aware of the contextual subtleties of language; the written and spoken evidence of children's encounters with language is the basis of the research. This evidence tells stories - language stories, from which lessons about the nature of literacy may be drawn. While this is not a methods text in a traditional sense, it is essential reading for those wishing to update their understanding of what is known about written language and written language learning. (Teachers and graduate students in reading, writing, and language arts may wish to use this book in conjunction with The Authoring Cycle videotape series.)

Language Stories and Literacy Lessons

Reference

Burke, Carolyn

Harste, Jerome

Woodward, Virginia

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

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Creating Classrooms for Authors

Literature & Fiction

Short, Kathy

Contemporary

How do you set up supportive classrooms in which children can become real readers, writers, and inquirers? Can it be done every day, across the curriculum? 
 In the first edition, Short, Harste, and Burke presented practical theory of literacy instruction based on their work with classroom teachers. Their aim was to show practicing and preservice elementary teachers how to create the best possible literacy-learning environment. 
 In this second edition, the authors offer more ideas and rich descriptions of how their curriculum moved from writing and reading to include inquiry. Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirersrepresents their latest thinking, along with lingering questions and new concerns. 
 The first half of the book focuses on the authoring cycle and the ways in which Short, Harste, Burke, and other teacher-researchers have used the cycle as a curricular framework. The authors share their work within the writing curriculum, then move to the reading curriculum, and finally to rethinking curriculum as inquiry. They also discuss issues related to maintaining a community of inquirers. 
 The second half of the book contains more detailed descriptions of curricular engagements within the authoring cycle framework, such as authors folder, bookmaking, and readers theatre. These classroom strategies have already worked for hundreds of teachers, and Short, Harste, and Burke are at their practical best as they share them with you. Extensive samples of student work are included. 
 The ideas and experiences expressed in this volume are the result of a group of people who have worked together, thought together, and built from the work of others over time. Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers is a resource you will refer to again and again.

Creating Classrooms for Authors and Inquirers, Second Edition

The authors tried to live their theoretical models of language &amp; learning in their teaching, &amp; in their interaction with teachers &amp; children. They spent considerable time in classrooms putting their theories to the test. Over 15 years, they gave workshops, made video tapes, conducted research projects, shared doctoral students, stolen strategy lessons &amp; language samples, &amp; partied, everything together. Then wrote this book, in which they share their vision for the future of whole language: 'inquiring voices' is their image for the collaborative approach they use &amp; recommend.

Whole Language: Inquiring Voices

Education & Teaching

Watson, Dorothy

Schools & Teaching

Scholastic Teaching Resources

This book for elementary and middle school teachers and literacy methods courses articulates a powerful theory of critical literacy instruction. Critical literacy practices encourage students to use language to question the everyday world, interrogate the relationship between language and power, analyze popular culture and media, understand how power relationships are socially constructed, and consider actions that can be taken to promote social justice. By providing both a model for critical literacy instruction and many examples of how critical practices can be enacted in daily school life in elementary and middle school classrooms, Creating Critical Classrooms meets a huge need for a practical, theoretically based text on this topic.

Creating Critical Classrooms: K-8 Reading and Writing With an Edge

Lewison, Mitzi

Leland, Christine

Routledge

The book shows signs of wear, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. It may be marked, have identifying markings on it, or show other signs of previous use.

My Icky Picky Sister

Hazel, Beth

Children's Books

Willowisp Pr

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