Teaching Language Arts : A Student-Centered Classroom

Teaching Language Arts 6/econtinues its emphasis on a student-and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Engaging writing style and snapshots of real teachers bring the content to life for students. Instructors can use lesson plans, teaching ideas, and the on-line video case studies which will accompany each chapter to reinforce learning.Teaching Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking.Elementary Language Arts.

 

Carole Cox, Ph.D., teaches at California State University, Long Beach where she was named the Outstanding Professor in 2001. She taught elementary school in Los Angeles and Madison, Wisconsin. Students she taught in 3rd-5th grades in the 1960's and 70's and others who participated in a Shakespeare for Children summer program she created in Madison held a reunion for her in 2005 and the Mayor of Madison declared July 2, 2005 Carole Cox Day. Her publications include a textbook Teaching language arts: A student-centered classroom, 6th ed. (Pearson Teacher Education and Development, 2008), and a new book with co-presenter Paul Boyd-Batstone, Engaging English learners: Exploring literature, developing literacy, and differnetiating instsruction (Pearson Teacher Education and Development , 2009), among others. Her research has focused on children's stance towards literature from a reader-response perspective.