Language Arts, Vol. 81, No. 2, November 2003

Table of Contents

Issue Theme: Popular Culture and Media Literacy

• Thoughts from the Editors

  Kathy G. Short, Jean Schroeder, Gloria Kauffman and Sandy Kaser

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  Keywords: Elementary

• Popular Literacies and the "All" Children: Rethinking Literacy Development for Contemporary Childhoods

  Anne Haas Dyson

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  Abstract: The assumption that "diverse" children come to school without literacy ignores the resources they bring from popular texts.

  Keywords: Elementary

• Bringing the Outside In: One Teacher's Ride on the Anime Highway

  Donna Mahar

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  Abstract: A Group of lunchtime gamers mentor their teacher to help her understand and appreciate the art form of anime.

  Keywords: Elementary

• What Pokemon Can Teach Us about Learning and Literacy

  Vivian Vasquez

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  Abstract: We can learn much about the codes and ways of talking and doing associated with popular culture texts by closely observing children.

  Keywords: Elementary

• E-mail as Genre: A Beginning Writer Learns the Conventions

  Julie E. Wollman-Bonilla

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  Abstract: A case study of one six-year-old suggests that e-mail messages foster different skills and conventions than does print-based writing.

  Keywords: Elementary

• Children's Book Publishing in Neoliberal Times

  Daniel Hade and Jacqueline Edmondson

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  Abstract: Commercialization has brought popular culture texts and products into children's book publishing, possibly compromising the potential for books that reflectively engage children.

  Keywords: Elementary

• Children's Everyday Literacies: Intersections of Popular Culture and Language Arts Instruction

  Donna E. Alvermann and Shelley Hong Xu

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  Abstract: Children's everyday literacies can be used in schools to connect popular culture with the language arts curriculum.

  Keywords: Elementary

• SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING ON POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA LITERACY

  Carmen Luke

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  Keywords: Elementary

• READING CORNER FOR EDUCATORS: The Place of Media and Popular Culture in Literacy Instruction

  Danling Fu, Linda Leonard Lamme, and Zhihui Fang

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  Keywords: Elementary

• READING CORNER FOR CHILDREN:The 2003 Orbis Pictus Award Winner and Other Recommended Nonfiction Books

  Carolyn Lott, Christine Duthie, Nancy Hadaway, Julie M. Jensen, Deborah L. Thompson, James Valle, Sandip LeeAnne Wilson, and Carol Avery

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  Keywords: Elementary

• PROFILE: An Interview with Bernice E. Cullinan, Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts

  Dorothy S. Strickland and Lee Galda

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  Keywords: Elementary

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