Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies provides a useful resource to teachers as they face the complexities of literacy instruction in today's classrooms. Both pre-service and in-service teachers will find this text a valuable addition to their professional libraries.

KEY TOPICS:

Learning and the Language Arts; Teaching the Language Arts; Emergent Literacy; Listening and Speaking in the Classroom; The Reading and Writing Processes; Literacy in Action; Chapter 6 Reading and Writing Narrative Text; Chapter 7 Reading and Writing Expository ;

Chapter 8 Words, Their Meanings, and the Tools to Use Them: Grammar, Spelling,

Handwriting, and Word Processing; Chapter 9 Viewing and Visually Representing; The Language Arts and the Fine Arts; Putting It All Together

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For pre-service teachers who will work with students in kindergarten through grade 8 classrooms, this text offers a consistent model of instruction that will help them become knowledgeable about language learning and guide the many instructional decisions they will make. For experienced in-service teachers, this text provides a rich array of strategies and ideas that they can adapt to suit their personal instructional styles.