Language Arts: Content and Teaching Strategies, Third Canadian Edition

by Gail E. Tompkins, Michael Pollard, Robin Bright

Language Arts , Third Canadian Edition, is designed for students taking elementary language arts methods courses, as well as language and literacy methods courses. The third Canadian edition of this popular core text for beginning teachers presents the content of the language arts curriculum and the most effective strategies for teaching it to kindergarten through grade eight students. The philosophy of the text reflects a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. The book's coverage focuses on the six language arts paired reading/writing, listening/speaking, and viewing/visually representing.

720 pages, Paperback

First published July 28, 2004

About the author

Gail E. Tompkins earned her master’s degree and then her doctorate in Reading/Language Arts from Virginia Tech. She began her teaching career at Miami University in Ohio, then transferred to the University of Oklahoma and finally taught at California State University in Fresno. Because of her work with preservice and practicing teachers she received numerous awards for her teaching including the Provost’s Award of Excellence in Teaching at Cal State, Fresno and was inducted into the California Reading Association’s Reading Hall of Fame. She has been writing college textbooks for over 30 years—all focused on anticipating the questions teachers might ask and providing information to make her text users the most effective teachers. Other titles she has written include Language Arts: Patterns of Practice, 9e; Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach, 6e; Literacy for the Early Grades: A Successful Start for PreK-4 Readers and Writers, 3e; Literacy in the Middle Grades, 2e; and, 50 Literacy Strategies, 4e.