Teaching Language Arts: A Student- And Response-Centered Classroom - Hardcover

Carole Cox

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205174884 ISBN 13: 9780205174881

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 1996

Synopsis

This book emphasizes the student; and a response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. This book is eloquent, well-researched and well written, with a strong theoretical base that covers content both widely and in-depth. The author provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction with strong examples from today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The second edition of Teaching Language Arts takes a consistent student and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. It is solidly grounded in current social constructivist learning theory combined with a reader-response perspective toward teaching with literature.

About the Author:

 

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0205174884
• ISBN 13: 9780205174881
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 560