Learning the Landscape: Inquiry-Based Activities for Comprehending and Composing - Softcover

Claggett, Mary F; Reid, Louann; Vinz, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0867093951 ISBN 13: 9780867093957

Publisher: Heinemann, 1996

Synopsis

Learning the Landscape is based on two self evident premises: that writing and reading are interactive processes that when combined in meaningful ways generate the most powerful learning experiences the classroom can provide; and that a major part of such learning comes from students discovering the uniqueness and validity of their own perspectives as readers and writers.

In this refreshingly different text, students engage in a variety of learning activities. Each asks them to examine how they observe, perceive, and respond to literature. Each invites discussion, comparison, and reading and responding with peers. Each generates writing-poems, stories, essays, scripts. The book is interactive, encouraging students to become naturalists, ethnographers, as they observe, read, record, and write about their internal and external worlds.

Learning the Landscape is neither a reader nor a composition text. It is a rational and refreshing blend of the two. This book is designed for use across the grades, ideally from ninth to eleventh, and across a wide range of intellectual talent and persuasion.

About this title

About the Author

Fran Claggett taught high school English and humanities for many years. Former department chair and mentor teacher at Alameda High School, Fran was twice named Teacher of the Year in her district and county, where she initiated an achievement and portfolio writing assessment program. Her teaching experience includes college appointments in English, biology, and physical education; she has also been the James Lynch Lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She has given workshops for teachers across the country, evaluated schools in Guam, and taught in the Bay Area Writing Project Panama and the Virgin Islands summer workshops. Ruth Vinz is a professor and the Enid and Lester Morse Chair in English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Before becoming a teacher educator, she taught in secondary schools for more than twenty years. Vinz is the author of several Boynton/Cook titles, including Learning the Landscape: Inquiry-Based Activities for Comprehending and Composing, Recasting the Text: Inquiry-Based Activities for Comprehending and Composing (both coauthored with Fran Claggett and Louann Reid, 1996), Inside Out: Developmental Strategies for Teaching Writing, Second Edition (coauthored with Dan Kirby and Tom Liner, 1988), and Composing a Teaching Life, 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0867093951
• ISBN 13: 9780867093957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204