Teaching Language Arts continues its emphasis on a student-and response-centered approach to literature-based teaching in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.
Carole Cox uses a strong theoretical base that covers content in a wide and in-depth manner. This provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction that includes many examples from today's classrooms. Teaching Language Arts continues to be an eloquent and well-researched text that students and teachers will find empowering.
BCC for Cox: Teaching Language Arts: A Student and Response Centered Classroom, 6/e
Renowned for its authoritative, comprehensive coverage of the contemporary language arts classroom, the sixth edition of Teaching Language Arts provides a balance of student-centered and teacher-directed instruction that includes many examples from today's classrooms.
The Sixth Edition Continues to Garner Praise From Your Colleagues:
“I appreciate attention to all of the English Language Arts communication areas, model lessons, and links to standards. It just keeps getting better and better over time, which is a credit to the author.”
-Mary F. Heller, Kansas State University
“It includes information on emergent biliteracy and on ELL in more depth than other textbooks I have previewed. “
-Colleen Walker, Fayette State University
“The textbook does a fine job of emphasizing research-based best practices and an integrated approach to language arts instruction. This text provides practical teaching ideas that students can read today and put to use tomorrow.”
-Adriana L. Medina, University of Miami
“It is well organized and has a greater emphasis on writing, writing across the curriculum, ELL, and technology than any other language arts text I’ve seen recently. I think the author has made a tremendous effort to make the connection between language arts and other areas of curriculum explicit and natural.”
- Wanda L. Calvert, Clemson University
What’s new in the sixth edition?
- New Chapter 9, Genres of Reading and Writing, focuses on how to read and write in the different genres.
- Heavily revised Chapter 14, Language Across the Curriculum, focuses on integrating the different subjects within the language arts curriculum.
- Assessing and Differentiating Instruction sections in chapters 3-14 offer additional suggestions for assessing all students.
- New Differentiating Instruction feature in each chapter offers additional suggestions on how to modify instruction for ELLs and struggling readers and writers.
