In productive classrooms, teachers don\'t just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy Learning communities.
Throughout, Peter Johnston provides examples of apparently ordinary words, phrases, and uses.
Choice Words shows how teachers accomplish this using their most powerful teaching tool: language.
Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.
In productive classrooms, teachers don\'t just teach children skills: they build emotionally and relationally healthy Learning communities