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Tables of Contents for Literacy Through Language Arts
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Introduction
1
11
Sharon Murphy
Curt Dudley-Marling
I. Opening Contexts for Thinking about Teaching the Language Arts
How Children Learn or How Teachers Teach? A Profound Confusion
11
15
Judith Wells Lindfors
Scaffolding: Who's Building Whose Building?
26
13
Dennis Searle
II. Talking about Talk
Discourse for Learning in the Classroom
39
11
Ken Watson
Bob Young
Authentic Questions: What Do They Look Like? Where Do They Lead?
50
20
Beverly A. Busching
Betty Ann Slesinger
What Is Sharing Time For?
70
9
Courtney B. Cazden
``I know English so many, Mrs. Abbott'': Reciprocal Discoveries in a Linguistically Diverse Classroom
79
22
Suzette Abbott
Claudia Grose
III. Reading about Reading
A Reading Program to Live With: Focus on Comprehension
101
18
Yetta Goodman
Dorothy J. Watson
Learning about Phonics in a Whole Language Classroom
119
17
Penny A. Freppon
Karin L. Dahl
What Miscue Analysis Reveals about Word Recognition and Repeated Reading: A View through the ``Miscue Window''
136
28
Prisca Martens
Literature---SOS!
164
13
Louise M. Rosenblatt
Discussing Our Questions and Questioning Our Discussions: Growing into Literature Study
177
19
Carol Gilles
Jean Dickinson
Cheryl McBride
Marc VanDover
Joyful Noises: Creating Poems for Voices and Ears
196
25
Laura Apol
Jodi Harris
IV. Writing about Writing
Composition: A Position Statement NCTE Commission on Composition
221
13
Myths of Writing
234
10
Frank Smith
Finding the ``Right Measure'' of Explanation for Young Latina/o Writers
244
18
Liliana Barro Zecker
Christine C. Pappas
Sarah Cohen
The Writer's Toolbox: Five Tools for Active Revision Instruction
262
16
Laura Harper
The Courage to Write: Child Meaning Making in a Contested World
278
20
Anne Haas Dyson
Another Story: Putting Graves, Calkins, and Atwell into Practice and Perspective
298
18
David Sudol
Peg Sudol
Informational Books: Models for Student Report Writing
316
11
Evelyn B. Freeman
Developing a Spelling Conscience
327
17
Jan Turbill
What We Learned from Josh: Sorting Out Word Sorting
344
23
Mary Jo Fresch
V. Literacy Intersections: Multilinguality, Home, and Assessment
Educating African American Learners at Risk: Finding a Better Way
367
15
Dorothy S. Strickland
Guiding Bilingual Students ``through'' the Literacy Process
382
20
Stephen B. Kucer
Testing the Way Children Learn: Principles for Valid Literacy Assessments
402
19
Beverly Falk
Reassessing Portfolio Assessment: Rhetoric and Reality
421
18
Mary Louise Gomez
M. Elizabeth Graue
Marianne N. Bloch
References
439
32
Index
471
14
Editors
485
2
Contributors
487