Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.\ Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language. Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language...
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Johnston (education, State University of New York-Albany) shows how elementary teachers can build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities in the classroom through language. He provides examples of ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that encourage students to become strategic thinkers and acquire literacy skills. His explanations of the significance of these examples draws on the disciplines of discursive psychology, narrative psychology, discourse analysis, and conversational analysis. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
ForewordCh. 1The language of influence in teaching1Ch. 2Noticing and naming11Ch. 3Identity22Ch. 4Agency and becoming strategic29Ch. 5Flexibility and transfer (or generalizing)43Ch. 6Knowing53Ch. 7An evolutionary, democratic learning community 64Ch. 8Who do you think you're talking to?76App. AThe fine print87App. BFour fourth graders92App. CAnalysis of Debbie Miller's interaction with the class and Brendan97
