Teaching Language Arts: Pearson New International Edition - Softcover

Cox, Carole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1292041226 ISBN 13: 9781292041223

Publisher: Pearson Education Limited

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, student-friendly, and practical, this text 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, Carole Cox's new Seventh Edition continues to guide students as they learn the many skills required to become an effective teacher today. The book's unique Snapshotfeature takes readers into the real world of the classroom as they read about actual students and see samples of their work, and hear from the teachers as they describe their philosophies and methods. Well-regarded for its authoritative, comprehensive coverage of the contemporary language arts classroom, the book provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction that includes many examples from today's classrooms. This new edition remains grounded in current theories of constructivism and social interaction combined with a reader-response perspective toward teaching with children's literature, as well as current research in language and literacy instruction.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

 

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education Limited
• ISBN 10: 1292041226
• ISBN 13: 9781292041223
• Binding: Paperback