Doing Words: Using the Creative Power of Children's Personal Images to Teach Reading and Writing [Hardcover]

Katie Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1987

An irresistible book for both parents and teachers that shows how to capture the magic of children's creativity.

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First edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Co, was reviewed in The New York Times, June 24, 1987. -- Publisher Comments

About the Author

Katie Johnson has been teaching for more than 25 years, children of all ages and teachers of all grades K-12. After eighteen years of teaching first grade in Maine, she moved to Seattle where she is a Title I reading teacher in the Shoreline School District. She is a field instructor for the University of Washington-Bothell campus Teacher Certification Program and teaches literacy classes for Lesley College as well. She writes in the morning and reads in the evening, and watches her granddaughters grow.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 258 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin; 1st edition (November 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395427231
• ISBN-13: 978-0395427231
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,282,604 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Fun and Motivating Method to Teach Reading and Writing, January 10, 2001

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This review is from: Doing Words: Using the Creative Power of Children's Personal Images to Teach Reading and Writing (Hardcover)

Katie Johnson has demystified whole language with this practical and fun method of teaching young children to read and write. I have had the pleasure of using this book (based on Sylvia Ashton-Warner's philosophy)in a classroom with four and five year olds. My students were delighted to "do their words" every day and they were on the road to becoming literate at an impressive rate. Now I have a four year old of my own, and I am "doing words" with her at home. With Johnson's simple method she is now learning words by sight along with letter sounds, and is learning how to form letters properly. I never have to coax my daughter to "do her words". She comes to me every day and asks, "Can we do our words now?"