Negotiating Literacy Learning

Teaching professionals encounter students at varying levels of literacy proficiency and achievement.  Negotiating Literacy Learning  brilliantly illustrates eight real-life examples of children who struggle with reading, outlining the steps eight master teachers take to diagnose and remediate those problems.  The cases shared in this text identify reading difficulties that teachers typically encounter in their classrooms, walking readers through each teacher's method for negotiating learning.  Cases are organized in a clear and succinct manner, beginning with assessments followed by an instructional decision-making process to demonstrate a methodology you can follow to ensure that your students reach their literacy potential.  This book is for all professionals who believe that teaching requires a commitment to learning from and listening to students in order to improve teaching responses.  
 
What will you find valuable in Negotiating Literacy Learning?
 

• Eight cases from real teaching professionals that highlight the diverse challenges of working with struggling readers.
• Examples of teachers taking responsibility to help children reach their full reading potential
• Unique cases featuring organized frameworks that highlight the teaching and learning cycle of each practitioner

 
 
What do reviewers say?
 
This wonderful book is like a “Think-Aloud,” for teachers as they find ways to meet the needs of struggling readers.
 
Janice McCarthy Voss [Eastern Michigan University]
 
The authors have a unique format that I like with the added feature of content specificity that other texts with the story format lack.
 
Timothy R. Blair [University of Central Florida]
 
I find the topics covered across the chapters to be quite comprehensive in terms of the problems encountered by struggling readers and the problem solving challenges faced by teachers. I think (the text) should have a wide audience of teachers who are hungry to reconnect with the motivation that drew them to teaching in the first place and who are eager to learn from other teachers. I found this text to be in fact, inspirational.
 
Barbara Pettegrew [Otterbein College]
 
 
 
Janine Bixler, an associate professor at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York has been involved in literacy education for more than twenty years as a classroom teacher, consultant, and teacher educator. The focus of her research and teaching is on supporting teachers to work with urban children as young readers, writers, and communicators, both in and out of the classroom.
 
 

List of contents

Chapter 1    Cultivating Phonological Awareness:  Helping a Kindergartner Learn About Our Spoken and Printed Language

                    Kimberly Jemmerich, Kindergarten Teacher

Chapter 2    Developing Reading and Writing Fluency:  Building a First Grader's Automatic Vocabulary

                    Janine Bixler, Teacher Educator

Chapter 3    Teaching the Basics of Language Learning:  Developing a First Grader's Early Literacy Skills

                    Judy Stephenson, Literacy Specialist

Chapter 4    Expanding Vocabulary:  Motivating a Third Grader to Learn and Use New Words

                    Jaime Berry, Third Grade Teacher

Chapter 5    Creating Purposeful Literacy Contexts:  Engaging a Fourth Grader in Strategic Reading Through Cross-Age Tutoring

                    Melissa Agnetti, Fourth Grade Teacher

Chapter 6    Reading for Meaning:  Teaching a Fifth Grader to Make Sense of Texts Through Reciprocal Teaching

                    Patricia Isoldi, Fifth Grade Teacher

Chapter 7    Engaging in Book Talks:  Supporting a Fifth Grader to Build on the Ideas of Others

                    Margaret Falcone, Tutor and Education Graduate Student

Chapter 8    Creating a Culturally Relevant Learning Community:  Inviting a Six Grader to Read and Discuss Texts

                    Arin Rusch, Sixth Grade Teacher

About the author

Janine Bixler, an associate professor at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York has been involved in literacy education for more than twenty years as a classroom teacher, consultant, and teacher educator. The focus of her research and teaching is on supporting teachers to work with urban children as young readers, writers, and communicators, both in and out of the classroom.
 
 

Summary

Explore the challenges and achievements of struggling students with the guidance of Janine Bixler and her colleagues as they illustrate how real teachers take on the responsibility of isolating children's reading problems and help children overcome them.  Through authentic classroom cases and examples, Janine highlights eight different reading problems and then walks readers through each teacher's process for negotiating learning.  She organizes the cases in the same predictable format, beginning with assessment and followed by an instructional decision making process, highlighting how teachers help children reach their literacy potential.  

Product details

• Authors: Edited by Janine K. Bixler
• Publisher: Pearson Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780131714137
• ISBN: 978-0-13-171413-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Weight: 210 g
• Series: Allyn & Bacon; Allyn & Bacon
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology