Language arts

Bernice E. Cullinan was born on October 12, 1926 in Hamilton, Ohio. She began her career as an elementary school teacher as she pursued her undergraduate and graduate studies at Ohio State University. She was an instructor and assistant professor at Ohio State University from 1959 to 1967 before moving to an associate professor position at New York University in 1967. She taught there for 30 years. She received many honors for her teaching and advocacy work including induction into the IRA's Reading Hall of Fame in 1989.

In 1990, she was named editor-in-chief of Wordsong, the newly created poetry imprint at Boyds Mills Press, a position she held until 2008. During her lifetime, she wrote or edited more than 40 books including Children's Literature in the Reading Program (IRA) and Literature and the Child. She died on February 5, 2015 at the age of 88.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Part 1 Contexts for Teaching and Learning the Language Arts

1 Language Arts: Learning and Teaching

2 Organizing and Managing the Language Arts Program

3 The Role of Literature in Language Arts Teaching and Learning

Part 2 Language Arts Processes

4 Oral Language: Early and Later Development

5 Oral Language: Supporting Relationships Among Talk, Listening, Reading, Writing, and Viewing in the Classroom

6 Reading: The Emergence of Literacy in the Early Years

7 Reading: Responding to and Learning from Texts through the Grades

8 Writing: Launching Children Into Writing

9 Writing: Writing Across the Genres

Part 3 Links and Supports for Language Arts Teaching and Learning

10 Word Study, Vocabulary, and Spelling Supports for Literacy

11 Written Language Conventions: Grammar, Punctuation, and Handwriting

12 Linking Assessment and Instruction

13 Language Arts Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum.

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