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Engaging young children with informational books / Helen Patrick, Panayota Mantzicopoulos.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patrick, Helen, 1951- author.
- Mantzicopoulos, Panayota, author.
- Series:
- Classroom insights from educational psychology.
- Classroom insights from educational psychology series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language arts (Elementary).
- Exposition (Rhetoric)--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- Exposition (Rhetoric).
- English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching (Elementary).
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 214 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offering an approach to and examples of integrating language arts and science, each chapter in this book contains one or more Windows into Practice - brief descriptions or accounts by teachers of events in their classrooms; teachers' narratives provide specific illustrations of principles or activities presented.
- Contents:
- ENGAGING YOUNG CHILDREN WITH INFORMATIONAL BOOKS-FRONT COVER; ENGAGING YOUNG CHILDREN WITH INFORMATIONAL BOOKS; CONTENTS; SERIES PREFACE TO CLASSROOM INSIGHTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1: ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF SCHOOL: PRIORITIES AND CONSEQUENCES; CHAPTER 2: DO YOUNG CHILDREN FIND INFORMATIONAL BOOKS HARD TO UNDERSTAND?; CHAPTER 3: ARE YOUNG CHILDREN REALLY INTERESTED IN INFORMATIONAL BOOKS?; CHAPTER 4: WHAT SHOULD I CONSIDER WHEN SELECTING INFORMATIONAL BOOKS?
- CHAPTER 5: HOW CAN I USE SHARED INFORMATIONAL BOOK READING IN MY CLASSROOM TO BUILD CHILDREN'S READING SKILLS AND BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE?CHAPTER 6: HOW CAN I INCORPORATE WRITING WITH INFORMATIONAL BOOKS?; CHAPTER 7: HOW CAN PARENTS USE INFORMATIONAL BOOKS TO SUPPORT CHILDREN'S LEARNING?; REFERENCES FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS; REFERENCES FOR RESEARCH SOURCES; INDEX
- Notes:
- "A Joint Publication"--Title page.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781452284866
- 1452284865
- 9781452284897
- 145228489X
- 9781452284903
- 1452284903
- OCLC:
- 900086560
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