Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature

by Gordon Winch, Rosemary Ross Johnston, Paul March, Leslie Ljungdahl, Marcelle Holliday

Overview

Your literacy guide to take into the profession, Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Sixth Edition, is the most comprehensive text for pre-service teachers to learn how to teach literacy. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing, and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory in their classrooms.

This new edition has been completely revised and streamlined to create stronger links from education to professional practice. The accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions to help readers put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and demonstrate how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginner through to accomplished.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190310561
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/26/2021
Edition description:	6th ed.
Pages:	696
Product dimensions:	9.81(w) x 8.14(h) x 1.05(d)

About the Author

Gordon Winch, ,Rosemary Ross Johnston, Professor, University of Technology Sydney,Paul March, ,Leslie Ljungdahl, University of Technology Sydney,Marcelle Holliday

Professor Rosemary Johnston AM (Professor of Education and Culture) has held management positions at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and is Founding Director of the International Centre for Youth Futures.

Paul March is currently an educational consultant and has been an Associate of the International Centre for Youth Cultures, UTS. Dr March has been lecturing at UTS in primary English curriculum studies (including reading, writing, and children's literature), child drama, and communication studies.

Lesley Ljungdahl was the Coordinator of the Bachelor of Education (Primary Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She taught English literacy and literature subjects in both the primary and the secondary school programs at UTS.

Marcelle Holliday taught for eighteen years in primary and demonstration schools in New South Wales and South Australia before working on the assessment of reading with the Australian Cooperative Assessment Project. Marcelle currently works as an education consultant and writer.

Table of Contents

1 Literacy in the Modern World. 2 Oral Language
. Part 1 Reading3 A Balanced View of Reading. 4 Towards a Model of Reading. 5 Word Recognition: Phonics, Phonemes and Phonemic Awareness. 6 Comprehension: Meaning of Text. 7 The Reader and the Text. 8 Assessment in Reading. 9 The Effective Teaching of Reading. 10 Learning to Read: The Child Before School. 11 Learning to Read: The Early School Years. 12 Learning to Read: The Primary School Years. 13 Managing the Literacy Classroom
. Part 2 Writing14 The Role of Writing. 15 The Importance of Writing in Our Society. 16 The Writing Developmental Continuum. 17 Grammar. 18 Punctuation. 19 Spelling. 20 Handwriting. 21 Assessment of Writing. 22 Multiliteracies and Technology. 23 Teaching Writing in the Classroom
. Part 3 Literature24 Literature and the Curriculum. 25 Starting Out: Introducing the Book. 26 Early Childhood Literature and Engaged Play. 27 Increasingly Informed and Literary Ways. 28 Picturebooks and Poetry: Visual and Verbal Arts. 29 Visual Literacy: Reading the World of Signs. 30 Developing Critical and Cultural Literacy with Fairytales. 31 Stories: A Rich Resource for EAL/D and Indigenous Students. 32 Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, and Asia. 33 Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability and the Environment. 34 Literature Across the Curriculum: General Capabilities. 35 Literature Matters! Deep literacy and a nation of readers.