"Developing Voice Through the Language Arts is user friendly, with lots of good examples...I am always looking for fresh, interesting, and pertinent material and this fits the bill."
―Deborah A. Farrer, California University of Pennsylvania
"Teachers facing the diversity in their classrooms need to understand the importance of ′developing voice′ so that all students become successful and can be heard!"
―Tim Toops, Florida Southern College
Let every voice be heard! Developing Voice Through the Language Arts shows prospective teachers how to use the language arts to connect diverse students to the world around them and help them develop their own literate voices.
Developing Voice Through the Language Arts considers the integrated nature of the primary language arts - reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually representing. Authors Kathryn Henn-Reinke and Geralyn A. Chesner encourage preservice and inservice teachers to take a reflective, balanced approach in preparing to teach language arts. Prospective teachers are encouraged to view not only their students as language users and learners but to develop themselves as literate models.
Through their incorporation of the NCTE/IRA Standards for the English Language Arts, the authors explore the integrated nature of the language arts using children′s literature, critical thinking, and technology. Through vignettes, views into classrooms, connections to the field, student artifacts, and an ongoing reflection journal Developing Voice Through the Language Arts provides prospective teachers with a wide range of activities that will help them to make connections between theoretical constructs and their manifestation in classroom practice.
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The text provides preservice and in-service K-8 teachers with a solid framework for teaching, learning, and assessment in the language arts that reflects research on how children develop as literate persons. Nationally recognized literacy standards reflecting the integrated nature of the language arts--including reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and visually representing--are woven into the socio-cultural constructivist viewpoint that forms the philosophical basis for the text. An emphasis on children's literature, diversity, critical thinking, and technology are other critical elements that are developed. Given the ever-increasing numbers of students in today's schools whose first language is not English, emphasis is placed on meeting the needs of English language learners. Additionally, students with exceptional needs require teachers of literacy who understand their learning needs. This text not only encourages preservice and in-service teachers to take a reflective approach to teaching the language arts and guide K-8 students in developing their literate capabilities as language users, but to begin with themselves as literate models for their students.The text includes a philosophical introduction in Part I, a discussion of each of the language arts in Part II, and classroom views from early childhood through early adolescence classrooms in the final section, Part III.
