| Description |
viii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Chapter Introduction -- MORAG STYLES / Teaching through texts--contexts, conventions and contributors Morag Styles -- chapter 1 Give Yourself a Hug: reading between the rhymes -- VIVIENNE SMITH / Reading between the rhymes Vivienne Smith -- chapter 2 'Never be without a Beano!': comics, children and literacy -- HELEN BROMLEY / Comics, children and literacy Helen Bromley -- chapter 3 From Minnie the Minx to Little Lord Fauntleroy: understanding character in fiction -- CHRIS DODDINGTON / Understanding character in fiction Chris Doddington -- chapter 4 Juvenile leads / NICK WARBURTON -- chapter 5 Into the woods: animating stories through drama -- ANDY KEMPE / Animating stories through drama Andy Kempe -- chapter 6 Drawing lessons from Anthony Browne / MARY PURDON -- chapter 7 Beyond the text: metafictive picture-books and sophisticated readers -- KATE RABEY / Metafictive picture-books and sophisticated readers Kate Rabey -- chapter 8 Reading the movies: learning through film -- SARAH JONES / Learning through film Sarah Jones -- chapter 9 'My mum's favourite yoghourt is "Diet Choice'": language study through environmental texts -- HOLLY ANDERSON / Language study through environmental texts Holly Anderson -- chapter 10 'And they lived happily ever after ... not really!': working with children's dictated texts -- ISOBEL URQUHART / Working with children's dictated texts Isobel Urquhart -- chapter 11 Telling facts: contrasting voices in recent information books for children -- FRANCES SMITH / Contrasting voices in recent information books for children Frances Smith -- chapter 12 Anne Fine's stories for life / JIM JONES |
| Summary |
Annotation. Teaching Through Texts uses a wide range of genres including poetry, playscripts, picture books, performance texts, comics, cinema texts, novels, non-fiction and pupils' own narratives to show how exciting it can be to teach literacy effectively in the primary classroom |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Children's literature -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Great Britain.
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Literacy -- Great Britain.
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Reading (Primary) -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Anderson, Holly, 1949-
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Styles, Morag.
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| LC no. |
99028349 |
| ISBN |
0415203066 (hbk : alk. paper) |
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0415203074 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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