In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children
skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning
communities. 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
literate people. Through language, children learn how to become
strategic thinkers, not merely learning the literacy strategies. In
addition, Johnston examines the complex learning that teachers
produce in classrooms that is hard to name and thus is not
recognized by tests, by policy-makers, by the general public, and
often by teachers themselves, yet is vitally important.
This book will be enlightening for any teacher who wishes to be
more conscious of the many ways their language helps children
acquire literacy skills and view the world, their peers, and
themselves in new ways.
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