Doing Words: Using the Creative Power of Children's Personal Images to Teach Reading and Writing - Hardcover

Johnson, Katie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395427231 ISBN 13: 9780395427231

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1987

Synopsis

Offers a fresh approach on teaching children to read and master basic language skills

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About the Author

Katie Johnson has been teaching for more than 25 years, children of all ages and teachers of all grades K-12. After eighteen years of teaching first grade in Maine, she moved to Seattle where she is a Title I reading teacher in the Shoreline School District. She has been a field instructor for the University of Washington-Bothell campus Teacher Certification Program and has been an adjunct instructor for Lesley University. She writes in the morning and reads in the evening, and watches her granddaughters grow.

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"That first day Ricky stood by the door, sobbing. The second day he wedged himself between the piano and the writing table and looked on, weeping, as the other children were Doing Words. Each one asked for new Word, traced it, and read their collections of Words to each other. The third day he stood near the table, dry-eyed, watching closely. "Would you like to have a Word today, Ricky?" He looked at me, for the first time. "You tell me what you want, I write it, then you can read it and write it too." He moved a step closer. "Who do you love best?" I asked. He dissolved into tears again, but choked out, "Mom." Briskly I printed Mom on a card, while he did a few of the big, jerky sniffs that come at the end of crying. "This word is Mom." "Mom," he read. And the sun, moon, and stars shone in his face.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395427231
• ISBN 13: 9780395427231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258