Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies

by Gail E. Tompkins, Robin M. Bright, Michael J. Pollard

Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies provides a useful resource to teachers as they face the complexities of literacy instruction in today’s classrooms. Both preservice and inservice teachers will find this text a valuable addition to their professional libraries. For preservice teachers who will work with students in kindergarten through grade 8, this text offers a consistent model of instruction that will help them become knowledgeable about language learning and guide the many instructional decisions they will make. For experienced inservice teachers, this text provides a rich array of strategies and ideas that they can adapt to suit their personal instructional styles. The fifth Canadian edition of Language Arts is a significant revision of a popular core text designed for elementary- and middle-school language arts methods courses and language and literacy courses.

560 pages, Paperback

First published January 25, 1996

About the author

Gail E. Tompkins earned her master’s degree and then her doctorate in Reading/Language Arts from Virginia Tech. She began her teaching career at Miami University in Ohio, then transferred to the University of Oklahoma and finally taught at California State University in Fresno. Because of her work with preservice and practicing teachers she received numerous awards for her teaching including the Provost’s Award of Excellence in Teaching at Cal State, Fresno and was inducted into the California Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame. She has been writing college textbooks for over 30 years—all focused on anticipating the questions teachers might ask and providing information to make her text users the most effective teachers. Other titles she has written include Language Arts: Patterns of Practice, 9e; Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach, 6e; Literacy for the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers, 3e; Literacy in the Middle Grades, 2e; and, 50 Literacy Strategies, 4e.

Reviews

[Katelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

great for unit/lesson planning