Brownlie, Close, and Wingren 1990

Brownlie, Faye, Susan Close, and Linda Wingren. 1990.Tomorrow's classroom today: Strategies for creating active readers, thinkers, and writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 160 pages. 0435085506. Location: Dallas SIL Library 3372.6 B885t. Interest level: lay specialist.

Is designed for both novice and experienced teachers. Written in a workshop format; it reviews research on how students learn. Covers instructional considerations faced by whole language teachers including

• minute-by-minute decisions
• long-term planning
• instructional sequencing, and
• strategy choice.

Explores 13 practical strategies designed to create active readers, writers, and thinkers. Gives the following for each strategy:

• Examples of the words of classroom teachers
• Observations by an enlightened observer
• Examples of student responses
• Analysis of teaching and learning styles
• Review of each strategy in "recipe" form for quick review and reference

• Bibliography module: Brownlie, Close, and Wingren 1990
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): B
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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