Language Arts - Learning About Language In Today’s Language Arts Programs, Mar 1997

A children’s author explores one aspect of learning about language that is present in picturebooks he writes: The relation between sound and sense.

Teachers and researchers look again at the Benchmark Word Identification Program, explaining how they modified it to meet the needs of children who continued to have difficulty figuring out the alphabetic system of written language.

Most upper elementary-aged readers are beyond phonics, but they can still benefit from learning about how words work.

These revision tools provide students with a set of easily accessible options for getting their jobs done in writing.

Poetry is often overlooked as a form of literature through which children can reflect on language in interesting and powerful ways.

The child, the classroom teacher, and the language specialist work together in the context of the classroom to help children with significant language difficulties.

Provides brief descriptions of 27 children’s books that teachers may use in approaching literary study and organizing literature units. Groups the books around literary elements, structures, devices, and genres.