The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing: Making the Words Come Alive

By Thomas Armstrong

We normally think of reading and writing as skills that are a part of linguistic intelligence. In The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing: Making the Words Come Alive, Thomas Armstrong shows how involving the other seven intelligences--logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic--will help students acquire reading and writing skills, especially those students who are not particularly strong in linguistic intelligence.

The Multiple Intelligences of Reading and Writing appeals to all educators who work with reading and writing skills, from the preschool teacher leading the class in phonemic awareness activities to the post-graduate professor helping students examine kinesthetic imagery in Shakespeare's plays. The book combines Howard Gardner's MI theory and recent brain research on reading and writing with historical, anthropological, biographical, and psychological perspectives on literacy. Armstrong pulls the research together to show you how to engage students by infusing the study of words with imagery, logic, oral language, physical activity, emotion, music, social involvement, and nature experiences.

Armstrong provides hundreds of ideas, strategies, tips, and resources for teaching everything from grammar and spelling to word decoding and reading comprehension. His strategic approach synthesizes the best reading and writing methods for application in preK-12 classrooms, literacy programs, speech and language pathology groups, one-to-one tutoring sessions, and all other settings where words are the focus of learning. Armstrong shows you how to empower your students with literacy skills for life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871207184
• ISBN13: 9780871207180
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

rcsreadingtutor

This book has been an incredible resource for my research on my thesis work. In addition to that, I have learned MANY creative ways to help the students that I work with learn to read. Armstrong takes Gardner's theory of MI's and puts into an easy-to-read, easy-to-use format for teachers and parents to help children that my be struggling to learn to read and write through conventional methods. I would strongly recommend this book to parents, teachers, and students who are aspiring to become teachers.

Great tool!

This book is very helpful for using the Multiple Intelligences in the classroom. It gives very specific strategies for all of the intelligences. I am a language teacher, and I use many of the ideas in my classroom!