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Choice words : how our language affects children's learning / Peter H. Johnston.

Johnston, Peter H. (Author).
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The Center Library 371.1022 Joh 2004 145641 Stacks Checked out 12/03/2013

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  • ISBN: 1571103899 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9781571103895 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xii, 106 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers, c2004.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-106).
Formatted Contents Note: The language of influence in teaching -- Noticing and naming -- Identity -- Agency and becoming strategic -- Flexibility and transfer (or generalizing) -- Knowing -- An evolutionary, democratic learning community -- Who do you think you're talking to?
Summary, etc.: 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.

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