Handbook of Research on Teaching Literacy Through the Communicative and Visual Arts: Sponsored by the International Reading Association

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Contributors
Reviewers
Part I THEORETICAL BASES FOR COMMUNICATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS TEACHING
	Introduction
	1 Literacy for the Information Age
	2 Television as a Learning Environment: A Theory of Synergy
	3 TV Viewing, Reading and Media Literacy
	4 Television and Language Learning
	5 Visual Communication Skills and Media Literacy
	6 Visual Intelligence and Analogical Thinking
	7 Visual Intelligence and Spatial Aptitudes
	8 Exploring Future Media
	9 Balancing Act: Using Drama to Even the Exchange of Information in the Classroom
	10 Navigating the Changing Landscape of Literacy: Current Theory and Research in Computer-Based Reading and Writing
Part II METHODS OF INQUIRY IN COMMUNICATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS TEACHING
	Introduction: Explorations in Crossing Boundaries
	11 Ethnography for the Study of Performance in the Classroom
	12 Transcription and Representation in Literacy Research
	13 Methodology in Teacher Research: Three Cases
	14 Assessing Development and Learning Over Time
	15 Children Out of Bounds: The Power of Case Studies in Expanding Visions of Literacy Development
	16 Ethnography and Ethnograp hers of and in Education: A Situated Perspective
	17 Remaking Sense, Reshaping Inquiry: Feminist Metaphors and a Literacy of the Possible
	18 Making ‘Collaboration’ Problematic in Collaborative School-University Research: Studying with Urban Teacher Researchers to Transform Literacy Curriculum Genres
	19 Poetic Representation
	20 Alternative Methodology for Diagnostic Assessment of Written and Verbal Responses to Works of Art
	21 A National Policy Perspective on Research Intersections between Literacy and the Visual/Communicative Arts
	22 Learning with Multiple Symbol Systems: Possibilities, Realities, Paradigm Shifts and Developmental Considerations
Part III RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN FAMILIES, COMMUNITIES, AND CLASSROOMS
	Introduction
	23 Telling Their Stories, Singing Their Songs
	24 Deaf Children as Literacy Learners: Tom Robbie, and Paul
	25 Youth Genre in the Classroom: Can Children’s and Teachers’ Cultures Meet?
	26 Bridging Home and School Literacies: Models for Culturally Responsive Teaching, a Case for African-American English
	27 Student Conversations; Provocative Echoes
	28 Street Literacy
	29 Intergenerational Discourses: Life Texts of African-American Mothers and Daughters
	30 Community Literacy: From Home to Work and Back
	31 A Grass Roots Think Tank: Linking Writing and
Part IV RESEARCH ON LANGUAGE TEACHERS: CONDITIONS AND CONTEXTS
	Introduction
	32 Preparing Language Arts Teachers in a Time of Reform
	33 Becoming a Member of a Professional Language Learning Community
	34 Teacher Preparation in the Language Arts: A Synthesis
	35 Exploring Voices of the Language Arts Universe: From Tin Can Telephones to Satellite Missions
	36 Teachers Reflecting on Practice
	37 Putting It in Perspective: Administrating Art Education for Literacy
	38 Preparing Preservice Teachers to Teach Multicultural Literature
Part V EXPANDING INSTRUCTIONAL ENVIRONMENTS: TEACHING, LEARNING, AND ASSESSING THE COMMUNICATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS
	Introduction
	39 Instructional Environments for Language and Learning: Considerations for Young Children
	40 Dramatic Play, Context, and Children’s Communicative Behavior
	41 Drama Worlds: Places of the Heart, Head, Voice, and Hand in Dramatic Interpretation
	42 From Storytelling to Getting On-Line: Language and Literacy Opportunities in the Elementary School
	43 “What Have You Learned?”: Co-constructing the Meaning of Time
	44 The Literary Text: Its Future in the Classroom
	45 Instructional Environments for Language and Literacy: Considerations for the Adult Learner
	46 Film, Video, and Books: Some Considerations for Learning and Teaching
	47 Electronic Discourse Communities: Theory, Practice, and Research
	48 The Future of Television in the Home and in the Classroom: Evidence for Impact
	49 Newspapers and On-Line Text: Essentials of the Literacy Environment
	50 Reading Comics, the Invisible Art
	51 Accountability through Assessment and Instruction
Part VI RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES ON CURRICULAR, EXTRACURRICULAR, AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES
	Introduction
	52 who Determines Policy, Power, and Politics and What Are Their Attitudes?
	53 Alternative Assessment, Literacy Education, and School Reform
	54 Setting Opportunity-to Learn Standards
	55 State Curricular Frameworks and Standards in the Communicative Arts
	56A Reading Recovery: A Summary of Research
	56B International Perspectives on the Reading Recovery Program
	56C Change through Collaboration: The Boston University-Chelsea Public Schools Partnership in Literacy
	56D Teaching the Delayed Reader: The Benchmark School Model
	56E Effective Literacy Instruction: Findings of the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program
	56F California’s Literature-Based Curriculum and the California Literature Project
	56G The Introduction of the National Curriculum for English
	57 Cross-National Studies of Literacy
	58A Literature Curriculum: Issues of Definition and Control
	58B Ten Years of Research: Achievements of the National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy
	58C Classroom Contexts Promoting Literacy Engagement
	58D Standards in the Language Arts
	58E Developing State Standards in English Language Arts: A Case Study
Part VII VOICES FROM THE FIELD
	Introduction
	59A Like Happy Dreams: Integrating Visual Arts, Writing, and Reading
	59B Symbolism: A Third-Grade Experience
	59C Voices from the Field: Constructing Meaning from Illustrations
	59D We Are the Music Makers: Helping Children Express Themselves through the Magic of Poetry
	60A The Eye and the Ear
	60B Books about Art: A Joyous Vision
	60C Sound and Resound
	60D An Author Celebrates the Unpredictable Ways of the Illustrator
	60E The Visual Arts Made Accessible through Picture Books
	60F Playing against Conventions: The True Story of the Stinky Cheese Man
	61A Reflections: Arthur Moves to TV and CDs
	61B Bringing Arthur to Television
	61C Reading Rainbow and the Joy of Reading
	61D Visual Literacy Goes to the Movies
	61E “Hoop Dreams”: An Interview with Steven
	62A Thoughts on Visual Literacy
	62B “Songs Capture Something That’s Gone and Make It into Something Tangible”: An Interview with Songwriter
	63A Judging by the Cover: How a Magazine Promotes Communicative Literacy
	63B Words+Pictures=Magic: A Designer Looks at Picture Books
	63C The Changing Face of Literacy: A Publisher’s Perspective
	63D New Directions in Literacy Instruction
	63E The Creation of a Basal Program: A Collaborative Effort
	63F The Role of Computer Graphics in Literacy Attainment
	64 Current Issues and Future Directions
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