Notes from a Kidwatcher is a treasure that all educators will want to have on their bookshelves.
--Educational Leadership Notes from a Kidwatcher is a treasure that all educators will want to have on their bookshelves.
—Educational Leadership This long-overdue anthology ranges from Yetta Goodman's first article about her own daughter's early spelling to her most recent, previously unpublished piece about turn-of-the century educator Lucy Sprague Mitchell and the lives of female educators in general. Goodman is widely known throughout North America for her work as a writer, researcher, teacher, and speaker, and her career and writing have reflected—and indeed often spearheaded—the concerns of holistic educators for decades. Miscue analysis, print awareness, kidwatching, whole language: Yetta Goodman's name leaps to mind in connection with all of these topics, and they are all represented here.
For those who would like to have the best of Yetta Goodman's writing all in one place, for those who would like to discover important articles that were previously difficult to find, for those who would like primers on important literacy topics, this anthology is an indispensable resource. Goodman's introductions to each section of the book add yet another dimension, describing how her work has evolved over time. |
Table of Contents
Contents:
I. Culture and Community 1. The Culturally Deprived Child: A Study in Stereotyping 2. The Culture of the Culturally Deprived 3. One Among Many: A Multicultural, Multilingual Perspective II. Miscue Analysis, Reading Strategies, and Comprehension 4. Qualitative Reading Miscue Analysis for Teacher Training 5. I Never Read Such a Long Story Before 6. What Beginning Teachers Need to Know About Reading: Mythologies and Reading 7. Retellings of Literature and the Comprehension Process 8. Retrospective Miscue Analysis: History, Procedures, and Prospects 9. To Err Is Human: Learning About Language Processes by Analyzing Miscues III. Print Awareness and the Roots of Literacy 10. The Roots of Literacy 11. Early Literacy Development: A Sociotransactional View IV. The Writing Process 12. Spelling Ability of a Self-Taught Reader 13. Do We Really Need Those Oversized Pencils to Write With? 14. The Writing Process V. Kidwatching 15. Kidwatching: An Alternative to Testing 16. Kidwatching: Observing Children in the Classroom 17. Evaluation of Students: Evaluation of Teachers VI. Whole Language 18. Respect for the Language Learner 19. Exploring the Power of Written Language Through Literature for Children and Adolescents 20. Roots of the Whole Language Movement 21. Vygotsky in a Whole Language Perspective Coda 22. Lucy Sprague Mitchell: A Woman's Language Story
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