Table of Content
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Front Matter
Acknowledgments
Part I. Orientation
Chapter 1. Understanding Language Arts
Chapter 2. Individualization, Interaction, and Integration
Chapter 3. Setting Up
Part II. Basic Processes
Chapter 4. Talking and Listening
Chapter 5. Informal Classroom Drama
Chapter 6. Becoming Literate
Chapter 7. Reading
Chapter 8. Performing Texts
Chapter 9. Writing
Chapter 10. Evaluating
Part III. Kinds of Discourse
Chapter 11. Word Play
Chapter 12. Labels and Captions
Chapter 13. Directions
Chapter 14. Actual and Invented Dialogue
Chapter 15. Invented Stories
Chapter 16. True Stories
Chapter 17. Information
Chapter 18. Ideas
Suggested Readings
Index
About James Moffett
James Porter Moffett (1929–1996) was a ground-breaking teacher, author, and theorist of language learning who had a profound impact on the fields of English Education, Language Arts, Composition, and Educational Psychology in the mid-to-late 20th century (Warnock). Moffett also had a lasting impact on the National Writing Project (NWP), was influential at the 1966 Dartmouth conference, and figured closely into the history of National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE); speaking at a number of NCTE conferences and events, publishing more than thirty articles across the many NCTE journals, and helping to found the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (Blau). In addition to his core pedagogical contributions, and in particular his paired 1968 publications, Teaching the Universe of Discourse and Student-Centered Language Arts, Moffett’s prescience and foresight in advancing holistic assessment, progressive education, the centrality of peer-to-peer interactions, social emotional learning, and multicultural and multilingual curriculum led him to be referred to by many as “the North Star” of language arts education (Durst; Spalding et al.).
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