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Item Nr: B 95236 Title: Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
Grade Lvl: T Author: Johnston, Peter
Length: 106 Prod/Pub: Stenhouse
Copyright: 2004 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 0 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Discusses the importance of the language teachers use with children for developing successful readers, writers, and literate members of society, and highlights the complex learning that teachers produce that is not recognized by tests, policy makers, the general public, and teachers themselves. Johnston compares autocratic and democratic teaching styles.

  Subjects:
  337 - COMMUNICATION
  427 - EDUCATION
  434 - EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
  1614 - REQUEST--LEA