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Teaching Language Arts: A Student-Centered Classroom

Name: Teaching Language Arts: A Student-Centered Classroom
Author: Carole Cox
ISBN: 9780133066807

by Carole Cox

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Overview

Renowned for its authoritative, comprehensive coverage of the contemporary language arts classroom, the sixth edition of Teaching Language Arts provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction that includes many examples from today's classrooms. What's new in the sixth edition? New Chapter 9, Genres of Reading and Writing, focuses on how to read and write in the different genres. Heavily revised Chapter 14, Language Across the Curriculum, focuses on integrating the different subjects within the language arts curriculum. Assessing and Differentiating Instruction sections in chapters 3-14 offer additional suggestions for assessing all students. New Differentiating Instruction feature each chapter offers additional suggestions on how to modify instruction for ELLs and struggling readers and writers.

About the Author, Carole Cox

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.