Linda Laidlaw
Linda Laidlaw is a Professor in Language and Literacy Education at the University of Alberta. Formerly a classroom teacher, her research focuses on primary education on literacy and diversity, literacy and play, and digital literacies. Her latest project is an international collaborative study, Reimagining Literacy Education: Being Literate in the Twenty First Century.
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Teaching and learning for a changing world
How do we help students makes sense of our increasingly complex digital world? This third edition of this classic text shows teachers how to empower students with the skills they need to ask critical and reflective questions about the overwhelming amount of information around them.
Asking Better Questions offers comprehensive tools and strategies to promote critical thinking and discussion in the classroom and encourage engaged and empathetic listening. Stimulating activities throughout the book promote lifelong inquiry skills that will help teachers and students grow in the classroom and explore broader issues in the community beyond. Challenge your students to assume a deeper ownership of their learning, ask questions that are important to them, and care about the answers.
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For students 5 - 14.
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160 Pages
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