Teaching Through Texts
Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom
Published on 7. February 2002
184 pages
978-1-134-63087-5 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on many popular and literary texts, the contributors to this book write with enthusiasm about opportunities for creative teaching and learning, and provide many examples of good practice both inside and outside the Literacy Hour
Reviews / Votes
'... the book recognises that at the heart of the literacy hour is a wide range of texts, fiction and non-fiction. It provides support, encouragement, inspiration and new ideas to teachers to help them tackle these both in and out of the literacy hour.' - The Times Educational SupplementMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
1,17 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-63087-5 (9781134630875)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Holly Anderson | Morag Styles
Teaching Through Texts
Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom
Book
12/1999
1st Edition
Routledge
€292.10
Shipment within 15-20 days
Holly Anderson | Morag Styles
Teaching Through Texts
Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom
Book
11/1999
1st Edition
Routledge
€74.00
Shipment within 15-20 days
Persons
Holly Anderson is joint Language Co-ordinator at Homerton College, Cambridge. She has many years of experience as a teacher in early years and has published widely in the field. Morag Styles is Reader in Childrens Literature and Language at Homerton College, Cambridge. She recently published Opening the Nursery Door with Routledge.
Content
Introduction: teaching through texts-contexts, conventions and contributors 1 Give Yourself a Hug: reading between the rhymes 2 'Never be without a Beano!': comics, children and literacy 3 From Minnie the Minx to Little Lord Fauntleroy: understanding character in fiction 4 Juvenile leads 5 Into the woods: animating stories through drama 6 Drawing lessons from Anthony Browne 7 Beyond the text: metafictive picture-books and sophisticated readers 8 Reading the movies: learning through film 9 'My mum's favourite yoghourt is "Diet Choice'": language study through environmental texts 10 'And they lived happily ever after...not really!': working with children's dictated texts 11 Telling facts: contrasting voices in recent information books for children 12 Anne Fine's stories for life
