| Description |
ix, 338 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Personal literacy. Getting under the lightning / Donald M. Murray ; Starting support groups for writers / Marge Piercy ; Effective teacher-child conferences : the importance of writing yourself / Ruth Nathan ; The importance of the act of reading / Paulo Freire ; One teacher's learning / Tim Gillespie ; On paying attention to the magic : an interview with Tim Gillespie / Ruth Hubbard ; Personal histories and professional literacies / Brenda Miller Power -- Changing concepts of literacy. Examining instructional assumptions / Jerome Harste, Virginia Woodward, and Carolyn Burke ; All children can write / Donald H. Graves ; A lot of talk about nothing / Shirley Brice Heath ; Whole language : what makes it whole? / Kenneth Goodman ; Inner designs / Ruth Hubbard ; The reading transaction : what for? / Louise M. Rosenblatt ; Transactions in literacy : an interview with Louise Rosenblatt / Brenda Miller Power ; The struggle for control of literacy lessons / Patrick Shannon ; "Caring where the rockets come down" : an interview with Patrick Shannon / Brenda Miller Power -- Literacy in classrooms. Mini-lessons : an overview, and tools to help teachers create their own mini-lessons / Lucy Calkins ; Six questions teachers ask about invented spelling / Susan Sowers ; Planning instruction / Lynn K. Rhodes and Curt Dudley-Marling ; Literature circles and literature response activities / Jerome Harste and Kathy G. Short ; Student journals / Toby Fulwiler ; Living an involvement with literacy : an interview with Yetta Goodman / Ruth Hubbard ; Writing and reading from the inside out / Nancie Atwell ; Why can't we live like the monarch butterfly? / Linda Rief ; Mark shared with the class today / Pat McLure ; Fifth graders respond to a changed reading program / Cora Lee Five ; Beyond basal reading : a district's commitment to change / Linda Henke ; "Así no se pone sí" (that's not how you write "sí") / René Galindo ; Thinking throughout the process : self-evaluation in writing / Susan Stires ; Recipe for process / Leslie Funkhouser -- Final reflections. "Wonderings to pursue" : the writing teacher as researcher / Nancie Atwell ; The tantalizing vagueness of teaching / Susan Ohanian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching.
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Literacy.
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Reading.
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| Author |
Power, Brenda Miller.
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Shagoury, Ruth, 1950-
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| LC no. |
90037651 |
| ISBN |
0435085328 |
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