Product Description: Hands-on, project-based learning enhances literacy and language of both English learners and English speakers as they work side by side—even within mandated programs. Book provides research-supported guidelines and strategies, with the DVD showing learners in action within two elementary classrooms where teachers support and stretch students' oral and written English and build content knowledge at the same time...read more

This volume presents analyses of educational and research practices with the first part highlighting bilingual education (the language strengths of minority children), and the second part focusing on whole language (theoretical assumptions, possibilities and limitations), and progressive ways of evaluating students. The book concludes by re-iterating the socio-political nature of literacy, of whole language, and, by implication, of educational and language practices.

Product Description: Presents progressive language projects from the perspective of their fates-what has happened to them in the real worlds of individual public schools, school districs, and insitutions. Through the expamples set by hardworking, dedicated parents, teachers, and administrators, these stories encourage the language educatiors working against the grain to heighten their awareness of their won contexts and to keep heart as they engage in progressive language projects...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Teachers, researchers, and theoreticians whose work has been influenced by Kenneth Goodman contribute articles to this book. There is a common theme in the linkages to Goodman's foundational work in understanding language, learning and teaching. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This volume examines the writing of children enrolled in an unusual bilingual program in the Southwest that emphasized writing in the first language until literacy was well established, and which attempted to offer an integrated curriculum. As a result, the volume presents research findings on children's spelling in both Spanish and English, their written code switches, segmentation, beginnings and endings of pieces, quality of the content, the relationship of first and second language writing, the role of the teacher in children's writing, and evidence that refutes common beliefs about writing, bilingualism, and other topics. From a broader perspective, the volume presents three different, yet interwoven stories: changes in children's writing over time; evolution of the theoretical stance used to analyze writing as well as changes in the theory that played an important role in shaping some of what occurred in the children's classrooms; and an unfolding of some of the events in this bilingual program and the relation of these events to children's writing and classroom practice.