Cathy Fleischer

Broschiertes Buch

Reading and Writing and Teens

A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy

Beschreibung

Cathy Fleischer, an English professor and mother of teenagers, helps navigate through the sometimes overwhelming messages you hear about adolescents and literacy. Concerned about your teen's reading and writing habits? Confused by media hype surrounding testing and standards-and what that means for your own son or daughter? Wondering what you can do to help your teen be a stronger reader and writer? In today's world, students need to be able to read and write confidently and competently. Parents who are well-informed about issues of literacy can help their teens reach that goal. In Reading and Writing and Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy, Cathy Fleischer, an English professor and mother of teenagers, helps navigate through the sometimes overwhelming messages you hear about adolescents and literacy. In clear and compelling language, she explains what current research tells us about reading, writing, technology, and standards and testing-and gives specific suggestions for what you can do to help your son or daughter succeed, both in school and outside the classroom. Offering advice from a host of experts in adolescent literacy, this book helps answer real questions from parents across the country about how to best support their teens as readers and writers.

Autor

Cathy Fleischer (pictured here with her sons Jesse and Seth) is a former high school teacher and current professor of English education at Eastern Michigan University, where she teaches courses in literacy, writing, research, and teaching methods for preservice and practicing teachers and co-directs the Eastern Michigan Writing Project (EMWP).As part of her work with the EMWP, Cathy co-facilitates the Family Literacy Initiative-a series of workshops for parents and families on ways to support their own children and teens as writers.Over the past two decades, Cathy also has worked extensively with schools in southeastern Michigan-from offering workshops for teachers and principals to serving on school improvement teams and volunteering in her own sons' classrooms. Cathy is editor of NCTE's Principles in Practice imprint and has published widely in the areas of teacher research, writing pedagogy, and literacy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Council of Teachers of English
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 191mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9780814139349
• ISBN-10: 0814139345
• Artikelnr.: 66137049