Developing Conceptual Knowledge through Oral and Written Language (eBook)

Perspectives and Practices, PreK-12

Melanie R. Kuhn, Mariam Jean Dreher (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
238 Seiten
The Guilford Press (Verlag)
978-1-4625-4266-6 (ISBN)

Infos

The development of students' conceptual understanding of the world is vital to their academic success at all grade levels (preschool through high school) and across content areas. This professional resource and course text presents expert perspectives on building conceptual knowledge and vocabulary through reading, writing, and classroom discussion. Topics include the importance of word study and informational texts in early literacy, discussion practices that boost comprehension, the use of multimodal and appropriately complex texts, engaging digital literacies, and discipline-specific writing. Ways to strengthen English learners' conceptual skills are highlighted. Each chapter describes current research, explains how to plan and scaffold instruction, distills Implications for Professional Learning, and offers Questions for Discussion.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2020
• Vorwort: Elfrieda H. Hiebert
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
• Schlagworte: academic knowledge • adolescents • background knowledge • children • classroom discussions • Cognitive • Concepts • conceptual development • Conceptual Learning • content areas • content knowledge • culturally sustaining practices • Development • Developmental • Digital Literacies • disciplinary • disciplines • Early Literacy • Elementary • ELLs • ELs • English Language Learners • graduate classes • graduate courses • graduate students • High School • informational texts • instruction • middle grades • Multimodal • preservice teachers • professional learning resources • Reading Comprehension • secondary grades • Speaking • Speech • students • Teaching • Teaching writing • textbooks • text complexity • text on language development and literacy • Understanding • vocabulary • vocabulary and concept knowledge • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4625-4266-2 / 1462542662
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4625-4266-6 / 9781462542666