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Teaching Language Arts: A Student- and Response-Centered Classroom (with Student Activities Planner) (4th Edition) - Hardcover
Synopsis
[This book] is designed for use as a main text in undergraduate and graduate language arts methods courses. [It] takes a consistent student- and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classroom. It's firmly grounded in current social constructivist learning theory combined with a reader-response perspective toward teaching with literature. -Preface.
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From the Back Cover
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. For elementary language arts teachers.
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.
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