Whatever Happened to Language Arts?: -- It's Alive and Well and Part of Successful Literacy Classrooms Everywhere / Edition 1

by David Booth

Overview

Whatever Happened to Language Arts? presents David Booth's best literacy strategies from almost half a century of teaching and enriches them with practical ideas and techniques that teachers can use. Each chapter features vignettes of outstanding teachers in action and reflects on what informed their successful classroom practice. David looks at literacy techniques that range from group reading to language experience to whole language to synthetic phonics to balanced literacy to reading and writing workshops and shares his insights into the way forward.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551382456
Publisher:	Pembroke Publishers Limited
Publication date:	12/21/2009
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	5 - 13 Years

About the Author

David Booth is Coordinator of Elementary Programs at OISE/University of Toronto. For more than 25 years he has worked with teachers in creating, applying, and evaluating approaches to how children learn to read and write. As a classroom teacher, consultant, speaker, and writer he has delighted thousands with his energy, enthusiasm, and commitment. He has given hundreds of speeches and workshops throughout North America, Australia, and England and has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgements, 1 Where Was I When Progress Interrupted Me?, 2 Wireless and Wired in the Literacy Classroom, 3 Can I Read my Comic Book in School?, 4 Looking at My Reading Muscles, 5 Has Anyone Seen my Pencil?, 6 I Want to Be the King!, 7 Look What I Found Out!, 8 Can You Hear My Voice?, 9 Will I Pass This Test?, 10 My Teacher Goes to School, Afterword: Beginning to Teach, Index