Title: Tapping potential :
Authors: Brooks, Charlotte.; Brooks, Charlotte,; Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English,
Physical description: ix, 330 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: L
Contents: Introduction: language and the teaching-learning process / Jerrie Cobb Scott -- Learning to Talk -- Learning to read / Karla F. C. Holloway / Black English dialect and the classroom teacher / Clara Franklin Alexander -- Black stunts, language and classroom teachers / Darwin T. Turner -- "What go around come round": King in perspective / Geneva Smitherman -- The King case: implications for educators / Jerrie Cobb Scott -- Language tips: The Black Ebonics speaker and the reading process / Jesse Perry -- Tips for Language teaching: teacher attitude and Ghetto language / Helen language -- Inner-city English / Walter F. Edwards -- Tips: deciphering dialect -- Jacqueline Brice Finch -- Introduction: reading / Miriam T. Chaplin -- Early childhood development and reading instruction / Dorothy Strickland -- Using Black learning style / George O. Cureton -- Teaching minority children to read in Elementary school / Constance J. Batty and Beauford R. Batty --^ Closing the generation gap and turning students on to reading / Ire Adams Page / Instructional strategies for teaching test-wiseness -- Irving P. McPhail -- Implications in personal construct theory for teaching reading to Black students / Miriam T. Chaplin -- Reading Materials / Dolores Straker -- Introduction: writing / Delores Lipscomb -- Killing them softly: why Willie can't write / Janis Epps -- A new lease on writing / Jacqueline Royster -- Hard words and clear songs: the writing of Black poetry / Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) -- Teaching the teachers to teach Black-dialect writers / Paul A. Ramesey -- The composing process of Black student writers / Robert J. Fowler -- Teachers as editors: the student conference / Vivian I. Davis -- Using the laboratory approach to enhance writing skills -- Carolyn Drakeford / Structuring the college composition class around the Black basic writer / Barbara Hunt --^ Using the oral history approach to teach freshman writing / Ethel Taylor and Ernest Bradford -- Using folk literature in teaching composition / Edward Anderson -- Teaching writing to gifted Black students / Delores Lipscomb -- Development of a sigh vocabulary into a reading and writing vocabulary / Arthuree McCoy and Linda M. Kumi -- Teaching tip: giving students feedback / Thomas Clifford Bibb -- Introduction: the literature of Black America -- the noise of reading / William W. Cook -- From oral to written: origins of a Black literary tradition / Martha K. Cobb -- The Afro-American griot / William W. Cook -- Exploring multiethnic literature for children through a hierarchy of questioning skills / SHaron White Williams -- Literature and Black children / Jane Hornburger -- The Black teenager in young adult novels by award-winning authors / Rosalie Black Kiah -- Black experience, black literature, Black students, and the English classroom / Darwin T. Turner --^ Putting Africa into the curriculum through African literature / Mildred A. Hill-Lubin -- Afro-American drama in education" an instructional strategy / Edward A. Robinson -- For the beginning was the word: integrating vocabulary study into the literature courses for the entering college student / Marie H. Buncombe -- Tips: the battle for books / Jacqueline Brice Finch.
Subject headings (LCSH): African American children--Language; African Americans--Education--Language arts.; Black English