Engaging in the Language Arts : Exploring the Power of Language

In this innovative text, distinguished authors Donna Ogle and Jim Beers bring language arts to life for teachers through a focus on contemporary communication and visual literacy, coupled with varied genre and electronic resources. This book focuses on helping teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others effectively in our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse society a nd to draw upon the greatest resource at their disposal to do this: the language power of their students themselves.    Unlike any other book on the market, Engaging in the Language Arts offers readers a firsthand look at the language challenges teachers face in todays classrooms, how to identify language possibilities, and how to make optimal use of these possibilities in their own classrooms.   The new second edition improves upon the well-lauded first edition in a number of ways, including: Key Teaching Strategy with rubrics appears in all of the instructional chapters and present an effective language arts strategy that can be used in the classroom with a corresponding rubric to help teachers evaluate their own success in teaching with the strategies. Examples include Language Experience, DR-TA, K-W-L, Shared Writing, and more. The new common core standards being implemented across the US are included and highlighted. The newly revised NCTE/IRA standards are included and referenced throughout the book. Sections on Children Who Struggle are included in all instructional chapters. Exploring Technology boxes, found in all chapters, include useful URLs that teachers can use in the classroom or to help them find meaningful content, or that they can use with student who struggle . Marginal A+RISETeaching Strategies align with relevant concepts in the main body of the text and give teachers in grades K-12 quick, research-based strategies to get to the how of targeting their instruction and making content accessible for all students, including English language learners.   About the Authors Donna Ogle is Professor of Reading and Language at National-Louis University in Chicago, Illinois, and is actively involved in staff development projects work in the Chicago Public Schools, the Reading Leadership Institute, and in other American school districts. Dr. Ogle serves as a literacy consultant internationally, including Critical Thinking International and as a part of the editorial review boards of Lectura y Vida and the Thinking Classroom. She recently finished her term as president of the International Reading Association (IRA). Donna also conducts research on visual literacy and content comprehension, having developed both the K-W-L and PRC2 (partner reading in content, too). She is the author of ma...