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Author Layne, Steven

Title Life's Literacy Lessons Stories and Poems for Teachers
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (97 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Conents -- A Word from Steven -- About Beginning and Early Reading -- Miss Porter . . . and Miss Hickory -- Kindergarten 1.0 -- Kindergarten 2.0 -- Reading Orphans -- First Grade -- For the Phonics Advocate -- For the Whole Language Advocate -- For the Balanced Instruction Advocate -- A Poem Written Exclusively for the Immense Pleasure of Those (Proud but Few) Who, 25 to 30 Years Ago, Had an SRA Kit in Their First-Grade Classrooms and Were Overachievers -- Aliteracy Poem -- A Word About Vocabulary Instruction
Early Literacy Assessment -- About Grammar, Spelling, Handwriting, and Composition -- "I've Got a Semicolon, and I'm Not Afraid to Use It!" -- A Tale of Spelling Woe -- Comma Man -- The Ivory Tower -- Grrrrr! for Grammar -- Spellingitis -- Milford's Mom -- Mrs. Peacock: Craftsman at Work -- Cursive Writing Sparks a Revolution -- Mail Drop -- Staff Development -- Why the Teachers' Lounge Has a Door -- A Poem About Kids Who Move into Your School District from a District Where They Do Too Much Training in Preparation for State Writing Examinations -- Oops!
About Junior High and High School Literacy Issues -- Mrs. Warner: A Radical in All the Right Ways -- The Book Report -- The Transfer -- Why I Love Teaching Junior High -- Stage Fright -- Literature Circles -- Dissection -- Censorship -- So Honored -- Lifesaver -- A Cautionary Poem for Content Area Specialists -- About Reading Aloud -- The Statistical Significance of the USPS -- Priorities -- What Is It That You Like to Do -- Readin' Worries -- Another Time, Another Place -- Observations From on High -- There's Something -- Read to Them -- About Standards and Teachers
Have You Ever Been to Fullers Bookshop? -- The Common Core -- The Standards -- Out-of-Date -- Model Teacher -- Teachers -- Sometimes Teachers Wonder -- . . . and Sometimes We Don't
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781003838609
100383860X