In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach students math and reading skills; they
build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual …

Introducing a spelling test to a student by saying,'Let's see how many words you know,'is
different from saying,'Let's see how many words you know already.'It is only one word, but …

Simple changes in a teacher's language can bring about profound changes in students and
classrooms. By paying attention to your words and tone of voice, you will: Increase students' …

The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help
children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Drawing on a large body of research and …

Abstract Helping Young Children Learn Language and Literacy takes a reader-friendly, child-
focused approach to teaching the language arts. It provides pre-and in-service teachers with …

This book is about widening life and career options for students in the middle and upper
grades through literacy. The book's one overarching assertion is that teachers of all subjects …

This monograph addresses the challenge of improving literacy learning for all children,
especially those in language-minority classrooms. The monograph introduces some of these …

Noting children's natural proclivity to interpret language freely and use that potential to
expand and develop as learners, this book offers a new approach to understanding how …

If asked to identify which children rank lowest in relation to national educational norms, have
higher school dropout and absence rates, and more commonly experience learning …

In their new collaboration, Celia Genishi and Anne Haas Dyson celebrate the genius of
young children as they learn language and literacy in our diverse times. Despite burgeoning …