language arts (early childhood)

Gretchen Owocki lets other teachers in on one of the best-kept secrets of early childhood eductioan: play is a virtural goldmine for facilitating literacy learning.

Presents a rationale for using read-alouds and performance reading routines in the middle school classroom, and combines summaries of research with practical strategies for three kinds of performance reading, and four types of teacher-centered read-alouds.

About the Authors is about the littlest authors -- those in kindergarten through second grade. Based on a profound understanding of the ways in which young children learn, it shows teachers how to launch a writing workshop by inviting children to do what they do naturally -- make stuff.

A flip chart designed to help literacy teachers enhance their guided reading lessons, intervention lessons, shared reading, independent reading, reading and writing conferences, and dictated, independent, and interactive writing in the classroom.

Explains how to introduce children to computers and electronic resources, providing forty complete storytime programs incorporating Web sites, CD-ROMs, and videos with songs, fingerplays, and popular picture books.

Presents a practical guide for the preschool classroom that helps to develop oral language skills, and contains assessment tools, a glossary of key terms, and planning suggestions.

Presents a series of reading lessons for beginners based on nursery rhymes, each with related activities and student hand-outs, and includes four interactive plays, as well as four short readers theater scripts.