Language Arts Essentials

Tompkins, Gail E.

ISBN 10: 0131720066 / ISBN 13: 9780131720060

Published by Pearson, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language Arts Essentials
• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131720066
• ISBN 13: 9780131720060
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This new book from the leading name in literacy and language arts has been crafted to provide concise, critical information for teaching the language arts, backed by the most current and applicable research available.  The “essentials” format gives teachers the information they need in a price- and time-conscious way.  Language Arts Essentials will provide inservice teachers with the needed background information and strategies as they further their professional development.

 

Written by leading Language Arts author Gail Tompkins, this book is:

• Concise, research driven, critical information for the language arts. 
• Very Applied - The book is divided into six parts, with each part covering the essentials, strategies, and classroom practices appropriate to the topic. 
• A BRAND NEW BOOK - not just chapters of her big book. Written from the ground up to be an essentials book.

About the Author

Gail E. Tompkins is Professor Emerita at California State Unversity, Fresno, and she continues to direct the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project.  She regularly works with teachers in their kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms and leads staff development programs on reading, language arts, and writing.  In 1998 Dr. Tompkins was inducted into the California Reading Association's Reading Hall of Fame in recognition of her publication and other accomplishments in the field of reading, and recently she was awarded the prestigious Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching at California's State University, Fresno.