language experience approach in education

Offers a comprehensive overview of key topics in learning instruction from grades five through twelve, with recommendations for the most effective practices for motivating students, using multiple texts and digital media, integrating literacy instruction with various content areas, and teaching ESL students and struggling learners.

A collection of literature-based lessons designed as a supplement to social studies curriculum that includes book summaries, NCSS thematic strands, critical thinking questions, activities, and six readers theater scripts.

Contains thirty-three strategies for using poetry in the elementary school classroom with each section providing a description of the strategy, vignettes telling how the strategy has worked, a list of more ways the strategy can be adapted, and examples of student work.