Language Arts - Teachers and Students in Classrooms: New Roles, New Relationships, Sept 1995

This story of one urban, African American girl’s writing stimulates us to think about the roles that teachers, peers, and cultural contexts play in children’s growth into—and against—the life and literacy that sur rounds them.

classroom teacher and university researchers talk about how new relationships were built in a first-grade classroom to enhance the literacy and living taking place.

Questions are a ubiquitous part of school classrooms. This article describes how teachers can rethink traditional questioning to make it a more authentic and powerful impetus to learning for students.

Much has been said about the power of hands-on learning for children. This article calls on educators to rethink the role that hands-on learning plays in language arts development and complement such instruction with first-hand experiences.

Writing samples of a child’s letters to her aunt over a period of a year and a half show how writing and reading influence each other.