02113    a2200265   450000500170000000800390001702000220005603700360007804000070011404100080012107200140012907200160014307200150015907200120017407200140018607200130020007200210021307200210023410000190025524500630027425000060033726000320034330000100037552014620038520250526161924.0250430072004GB                   eng    a9781571103895qBC  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 19.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aYP2thema7 aJNMT2thema7 aJNF2thema7 aYQ2bic7 aJNMT2bic7 aJNF2bic7 aEDU0460002bisac7 aEDU0090002bisac1 aPeter Johnston10aChoice WordsbHow Our Language Affects Children's Learning  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20040501  a118 p  bIn productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach students math and reading 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: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning  shows how teachers can accomplish this by using their most powerful teaching tool: language.Throughout this book, author Peter Johnston provides examples of seemingly ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom. Grounded in a study by accomplished literacy teachers, the book demonstrates how and what we say (and don't say) have surprising consequences for what children learn and for who they become as literate people. Students learn how to become strategic thinkers, not merely learning the literacy strategies, but adapting them to their lives outside of the classroom.In addition, Johnston examines the complex learning that teachers produce in classrooms that is hard to name and thus is not recognized by tests, by policy-makers, by the general public, and often by teachers themselves, yet is vitally important. This book will be enlightening for any teacher who wishes to be more conscious of the many ways their language helps children acquire literacy skills and view the world, their peers, and themselves in new ways.