Choice Words

Author: Peter H. Johnston
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B001OLRN9U

Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning

In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Download Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.

Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language. Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. Grounded in a study by accomplished literacy teachers, the book demonstrates how the things we say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for what children learn and for who they become as Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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