Heather's Hot Pick: Language Arts Programs (EDUC 420 Assignment #2)

 

Some resources to seek out for this assignment:  

David Booth

Books, media & the Internet : children's literature for today's classrooms

(Abbotsford Stacks)

Classroom Talk (Curriculum)

Games for everyone : explore the dynamics of movement, communication, problem solving and drama  (Curriculum)

Guiding the reading process : techniques and strategies for successful instruction in K-8  (Chilliwack)

Improvisation : learning through drama  (Curriculum)

It's critical! : Classroom strategies for promoting critical and creative comprehension  (Curriculum)

Literacy techniques for building successful readers and writers

Stories in the classroom : storytelling, reading aloud and roleplaying with children (Barton & Booth)   (Chilliwack)

Whatever happened to language arts? : -- it's alive and well and part of successful literacy classrooms everywhere  (Curriculum)

Story drama [videorecording]  (Abbotsford AV- VHS)

Story drama : creating stories through role playing, improvising, and reading aloud   (Curriculum)

Faye Brownlie

Grand conversations, thoughtful responses : a unique approach to literature circles  (Curriculum)

Reading & responding 5 : assessment to guide instruction (Curriculum)

Tomorrow's classroom today : strategies for creating active readers, writers, and thinkers  (Chilliwack)

Lucy Calkins

            The art of teaching writing  (Curriculum)

Kristi Clifton

Talking tables [kit] : a kindergarten oral language development program (Curriculum)

Susan Close

Unfortunately, Susan has never published the book she was originally going to do.  You will want to check out her website:  http://www.smartreading.ca/

Smart Learning presentation by Shawna Peterson.  Chilliwack interpretation of Smart Reading.  And a poster: Guide for smarter learning [picture] illustrating the philosophy: 

Not a lot in Education journals has been written about this program. 

Adrienne Gear

Nonfiction reading power : teaching students how to think while they read all kinds of information  (Curriculum)

Reading power : teaching students to think while they read  (Curriculum)

**We also have Reading Power Kits organized by this approach’s methodology and here is example book:  Giant Steps to Save the World  This book is in the Reading Power IT or Intermediate Transform Kit.

Cathy Mere

More than guided reading : finding the right instructional mix, K-3 (Curriculum)

More than guided reading [electronic resource] : finding the right instructional mix, K-3  (eBook)

Others:

Maureen Auman

Step up to writing. Grades K-3 [kit], Grades 3-6 [kit], Grades 6-high school [kit]  (Curriculum)

Ruth Culham

6 + 1 traits of writing : the complete guide grades 3 and up  (Curriculum)

6 + 1 traits of writing : the complete guide for the primary grades  (Curriculum)

Traits of writing : the complete guide for middle school (Curriculum)

The Trait Crate Kit Series.  We have kits for K to Grade 5.    **Scholastic has only published up to grade 5   Example record:  Grade 5  (Curriculum- Kits Section)

North Vancouver School District

Writing 44 : a core writing framework. Primary  (Curriculum)

Unfortunately, we don’t have any titles from these:

Open Court Reading

Debbie Miller

David Doake

Reading Mastery

But you could try searching  Education Research Databases  (ERIC, Canadian Business &Current Affairs-has Canadian Education) to see what the Educational literature may say about them.  Please note some programs or authors are more well known then others. 

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