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| Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
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Author: Peter H. Johnston
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Release Date: 2004-05
ISBN-10: 1571103899
ISBN-13: 9781571103895
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Great condition and speedy delivery!
| Customer Rating: | This book came in the condition it described and came before the expected date! Thanks!
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Excellent for teachers, especially new ones
| Customer Rating: | | This book does a great job of making you really consider the words you use with your students as a teacher. Not only does it give great advice, but it also gives some great tips and examples of how to approach common situations and what to say. Also, the appendices are prety informative as well. Johnston does a great job! |
Fluff
| Customer Rating: | | This book uses a lot of airy fairy language derived from post-structuralism and post-modernism to rehash the same old constructivist views that have been paraded in educational circles for decades. The information presented is nothing new and the interpretations are filtered through the eyes of constructivist bias. The fact that much of the Piaget's theory has been discredited by scientific enquiry seems to have escaped the knowledge of the author. Methods of teaching that are affiliated with the constructivist thought, including Reading Recovery are glorified, even though they fail to produce the goods when compared to methods of explicit reading instruction like synthetic phonics. Knowledge is not innate. Some things have to be taught. In many subjects such as science, structuring the environment to lead children to make their own discoveries is something that all teachers should be doing. They don't need this book to tell them that. However, many children will fail to learn to read and write properly without given explicit instruction in phonics and the building blocks of language. Constructivists take the point of view that explicit instruction detracts from creativity, but they fail to back up this assertion with scientific evidence. |
Choice Words: How our Language Affects Children's Learning
| Customer Rating: | | We are using this book as a book study group in our elementary school It serves as a great springboard for conversation about teaching strategies and learning. The book provides insights to new teachers as well as seasoned teachers and can serve as a way to share and reflect as a learning and teaching community. |
Too many useless words
| Customer Rating: | | I purchased this book based on a review I read in a popular teacher magazine put out by Scholastic. I was looking for a book I could read quickly and find information that would help me understand how my language affects my students. This book did give me that information, but I had to search for it, something I did not have the time to do. I wonder who the the targeted audience was for this book? Certainly not an overwelmed 2nd year 4th grade teacher with 26 students. |
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