Trends & issues in elementary language arts.
Contributors: National Council of Teachers of English.
Edition: 2000 ed.
Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Urbana, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Other titles: Trends and issues in elementary language arts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Sacred cows: questioning assumptions in elementary writing programs / Brenda Power and Susan Ohanian.; value: Learning to write: honoring both process and product / JoAnn Portalupi.; value: Putting ourselves on the line / Pat McClure and Linda Rief.; value: Understanding and transforming the meaning of our lives through poetry, biographies, and songs / Cecilia M. Espinosa and Karen J. Moore.; value: "Critical literacy: teaching reading, writing, and outrage" (excerpt) / Linda M. Christensen.; value: Story time as a magical act open only to the initiated: what some children don't know about power and may not find out / Karen Gallas.; value: Leadership as critical practice: a work-in-progress / Susan M. Church.; value: Literacy education as a site for social justice: what do our practices do? / Barbara Comber and Helen Nixon.; value: Columbine's challenge: a call to pay attention to our students / Robin Stern.; value: Becoming proactive: the quiet revolution / Cathy Fleischer, Kathleen Hayes-Parvin, and Julie A. King.; value: Transformative learning through a study group / Elizabeth R. Saavedra.; value: Rights, respect, and responsibility: toward a theory of action in two bilingual (Spanish/English) classrooms / Beth Yeager, Irene Pattenaude, María E. Fránquiz, and Louise B. Jennings.; value: Exploring critical literacy: you can hear a pin drop / Christine Leland, Jerome Harste, Anne Ociepka, Mitzi Lewison, and Vivian Vasquez.; value: Critical literacy in a fourth-grade classroom / Maria Sweeney.