Teaching Language Arts Learning Through Dialogue

Offers an alternative to traditional language arts methods texts, with contributions from teachers selected for their commitment to the idea that language arts are integral to all types of learning. Essays are grouped in sections on using language to create and imagine, to explore the world, and to connect with others. Readers are invited to encounter bilingual children in multiage classrooms, and fourth graders describing mathematical problems as metaphors. Includes lessons plan ideas and activities.Lindfors, Judith Wells is the author of 'Teaching Language Arts Learning Through Dialogue', published 1999 under ISBN 9780814150351 and ISBN 0814150357.