Product Description: Describing effective, creative strategies for talking with students in ways that enhance literacy learning, this book offers a window into the classrooms of four exemplary teachers. Principles of productive classroom discussions are illustrated with detailed case examples...read more

Product Description: This book focuses on practical, research-based approaches middle-grade teachers can use to help their students hone their reading abilities, learn from what they read, and become increasingly motivated to read and competent in responding to the sophisticated narrative and expository texts they encounter in the middle grades and beyond...read more

A guide to children's literature provides information on genres and using children's literature in the classroom.

Product Description: This text is intended for Elementary Language Arts Methods courses, and courses combining elementary and middle school language arts. It is also suitable for use in block courses combining introductory reading methods and language arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: See how a group of second graders grew as readers, became literate thinkers, and participated in conversations about books. This volume, a collaboration between teacher-researcher Stanzi and two university researchers, Galda and Rayburn, is the story of how Stanzi transformed her basal-reading curriculum into a program that used literature-study groups...read more

Product Description: The authors take one aspect of cognitive development, early literacy, and study the effect of social influences on metalinguistic awareness. Based on a longitudinal study in homes and schools, they present the results of how diverse and close social relationships influence children's literacy learning as they progress through the first three years of formal schooling, and discuss implications for teaching practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the Second Edition of this popular textbook, Galda, Cullinan, and Strickland continue to show new teachers how to use children's literature to support English language arts teaching and learning in kindergarten through eighth-grade classrooms...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "comprehension may be more or less difficult depending upon wether the relationship being expressed matches the listener's prior knowledge"