Language Arts: Patterns of Practice, Student Value Edition (8th Edition)
It offers a comprehensive set of instructional strategies and also offers very solid explanations and examples of how to plan and implement instruction. The text also offers practical best practices for differentiating instruction. My students are unanimously positive semester after semester.Eileen Kaiser, Northerstern Illinois University This textbook has it all! I have found this book to include all the topics, tools, and resources needed for preservice language arts teachers.Vernelle Tyler, Webster University Tompkins's text is widely recognized as the industry standard for this methods course.Elaine Pierce Chakonas, Northeastern Illinois University The activities Tompkins suggests are sound in the pedagogy employed. She offers methods that are not only rooted in sound research, but have been proven to be effective classroom practices.Kenneth Homes, Webster University