Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children’s Learning, 1st Edition

In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach students math and reading skills; they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning shows how teachers can accomplish this by using their most powerful teaching tool: language.Throughout this book, author Peter Johnston provides examples of seemingly ordinary words, phrases, and uses of language that are pivotal in the orchestration of the classroom.