Teaching Language Arts: A Student- and Response-Centered Classroom (Book Alone) (5th Edition) - Hardcover

Cox, Carole

9780205410385: Teaching Language Arts: A Student- and Response-Centered Classroom (Book Alone) (5th Edition)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0205410383 ISBN 13: 9780205410385

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2004

[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:

Written with an engaging writing style and packed with practical information, Carole Cox's fifth edition of Teaching Language Arts brings content to life for students!

Teaching Language Arts, Fifth Edition, continues to emphasize a student- and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. With lesson plans, teaching ideas, and online video case studies that accompany each chapter this practical text reinforces what you teach in class.

The Fifth Edition is an eloquent and well-researched text that students and teachers will find empowering!

Take a Peek Inside...

Strong Focus on Assessment:

New! Chapter 2, “Assessing Language Arts”

New “Supporting boxes” present guidelines and activities for working with English language learners, students with disabilities, and struggling readers and writers
Heavy emphasis on second language learners throughout the text including:

Snapshots of classrooms with second language learners—some illustrated with video online
A full chapter on “First and Second Language Development”
A full chapter on “Emergent Literacy and Biliteracy”

New CW Icons refer students to the Companion Website to select Online Video Case Studies

Here's What They're Saying:

“The style with which this book is written distinguishes it from others in the field. In addition, the resources it offers make it more practical and less theoretical than other texts in the field.”
Alicia Mendoza, Florida International University

“As I read through Cox's text, I found it to be readable and quite comprehensive. It is clear that the author really knows what she is talking about. Excellent examples are given throughout the book, with actual excerpts of student work given as well. I believe that these are of the utmost value as they help pre-service teachers to visualize student work before going into the classroom.”
Cecile Arquette, San Diego State University

Meet the Author:
Carole Cox teaches field-based language arts methods courses at California State University, Long Beach, where she won the Outstanding Professor Award in 2001. Other textbooks include: Crossroads: Literature and Language in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms, with Paul Boyd-Batstone (Merrill, 1997) and Teaching Reading with Children's Literature, with James Zarillo (Merrill 1993).

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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