Teaching new literacies in grades 4-6
Subtitle: resources for 21st-century classrooms
By: edited by Barbara Moss, Diane Lapp
Series: Solving problems in the teaching of literacy; Solving problems in the teaching of literacy
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781606235010; 9781606235027
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Teaching the genres.; title: Transforming traditional tales to improve comprehension and composition  -- Terrell A. Young, -- Laura Tuiaea, -- Barbara A. Ward; title: Every story has a problem: how to improve student narrative writing in grades 4-6  -- Sue Dymock, -- Tom Nicholson; title: Teaching poetry  -- Claudia Dybdahl, -- Tammy Black; title: Using readers' theater to engage students with drama  -- Regina M. Rees; title: Teaching journalistic style: a newspaper genre study  -- Nancy Frey, -- Douglas Fisher; title: Using procedural texts and documents to develop functional literacy in students: the key to their future in a world of words  -- Martha D. Collins, -- Amy B. Horton; title: Going beyond opinion: teaching elementary students to write persuasively  -- Dana L. Grisham, -- Cheryl Wozniak, -- Thomas DeVere Wolsey; title: Reading biography: evaluating information across texts  -- Barbara Moss, -- Diane Lapp; title: Teaching other genres.; title: Using comic literature with oder students  -- Chris Wilson; title: Using primary-source documents and digital storytelling as a catalyst for writing historical fiction in the fourth grade  -- Carol J. Fuhler; title: No stripping allowed: reading and writing political cartoons  -- James Bucky Carter, -- Kelly Lynn Carter; title: Hip-hop photo song: self-expressing through hip-hop as culturally responsive pedagogy -- Nadjwa E. l. Norton; title: Exploring high-stakes tests as a genre  -- Charles Fuhrken, -- Nancy Roser; title: Reading a science experiment: deciphering the language of scientists  -- Maria C. Grant; title: Reading + mathematics = success: using literacy strategies to enhance problem-solving skills  -- Mary Lou DePillo; title: Promoting literacy through visual aids: teaching students to read graphs, maps, charts, and tables  -- Paola Pilonieta, -- Karen Wood, -- D. Bruce Taylor; title: Critically reading advertisements: examining visual images and persuasive language  -- Lori Czop Assaf, -- Alina Adonyi; title: Reading web-based electronic texts: using think-alouds to help students begin to understand the process  -- Christine A. McKeon; title: Developing critical literacy: comparatively reading multiple text sources in a sixth-grade classroom  -- Jesse Gainer; title: Crafting the genre.; title: Using written response for reading comprehension of literary text  -- Evangeline Newton, -- Ruth Oswald, -- Todd Oswald; title: Reading persuasive texts  -- Thomas DeVere Wolsey, -- Cheryl Pham, -- Dana L. Grisham; title: Writing a biography: creating powerful insights into history and personal lives  -- Dorothy Leal; title: Monumental ideas for teaching report writing through a visit to Washington, DC  -- Susan K. Leone; title: Writing summaries of expository text using the magnet summary strategy  -- Laurie Elish-Piper, -- Susan R. Hinrichs -- Conclusion:; title: Looking back, looking forward -- Diane Lapp,-- Barbara Moss.