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Choice Words
Peter H. Johnston
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Description for Choice Words
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210.
In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach students math and reading skills; they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning shows how teachers can accomplish this by using their most powerful teaching tool: language.Throughout this book, author Peter Johnston provides examples of seemingly ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. Grounded in a study by accomplished literacy teachers, the book demonstrates how and ... Read more
In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach students math and reading skills; they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning shows how teachers can accomplish this by using their most powerful teaching tool: language.Throughout this book, author Peter Johnston provides examples of seemingly ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. Grounded in a study by accomplished literacy teachers, the book demonstrates how and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stenhouse Publishers United States
Number of pages
106
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
118
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781571103895
SKU
V9781571103895
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Ref
99-1
About Peter H. Johnston
Peter H. Johnston (Ph.D. University of Illinois) is Professor of Education and Chair of the Reading Department at State University of New York at Albany. His position as an advocate for teachers and children developed from his early career teaching primary school in his native New Zealand. He is a recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award for his contribution ... Read more
Reviews for Choice Words
"This small book is packed with big ideas about the importance of teacher language." - Instructor "Not only is the information important, but reading Choice Words will make you a better communicator with anyone, anywhere." - Language Arts "This slim book will provoke conversation and question in professional development discussions and serves as a beginning for inquiry into ... Read more