Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies

As the leading language arts book on the market, this popular core text for beginning teachers presents the content of the language arts curriculum and the most effective strategies for teaching it to students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The philosophy of the text reflects a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. The book's coverage encompasses all of the language arts, all traditional topics, and offers the strongest treatment available of the reading-writing connection.

This market-leading text features a fully-integrated approach to language arts instruction that is solidly based on cognitive and socio-psycholinguistic theories of learning. Coverage encompasses all of the language arts -- reading, writing, talking, and listening -- and includes traditional topics--handwriting, spelling, vocabulary, and grammar. It examines current topics such as the reading-writing connection...the development of the language arts across the entire elementary curriculum...and reader's and writer's workshops. A unique introductory chapter gives future teachers of Grades K-8 a complete instructional framework that is then applied throughout subsequent chapters to listening, talking, reading, and writing.