Sense-Making and Shared Meaning in Language and Literacy Education

This textbook provides a framework for teaching children's language and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to use in designing their literacy programs for children. Exploring how sense-making occurs in contemporary literacy practice, Murphy comprehensively covers major topics in literacy.

Sharon Murphy is a Wisconsin native who has spent over four decades in education as an elementary and secondary school teacher, a university professor, and an administrator. She has taught in three states and in three continents and has worked with and for domestic abuse and violence prevention programs. She lives with her husband Brad Niemcek in Madison, Wisconsin.

Chapter 1 A Point of Departure; Chapter 2 Frames for Sense Making and Sharing Meaning; Chapter 3 What Happens after "Hello"-Talk in the Language and Literacy Classroom; Chapter 4 Tactics and Strategies: Oral Expression; Chapter 5 Early Moves in Reading; Chapter 6 Reading as Sense Making: Beyond the Early Years; Chapter 7 Strategies and Tactics: Reading Expressions of Meaning; Chapter 8 Representing Meaning; Chapter 9 Tactics and Strategies: Representing Meaning; Chapter 10-Pedagogical Arcs in Literary Teaching; Chapter 11-Knowing Well and Doing Well: Responsible Literacy Assessment;