Teaching Through Texts: Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom

by Holly Anderson (Editor), Morag Styles (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415203074
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/04/1999
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'... 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 Supplement

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