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Author Martin, Tony, 1947-

Title The really useful literacy book : linking theory and practice in the primary classroom / Tony Martin, Chira Lovat and Glynis Purnell
Published London : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations
Series The really useful series
Really useful series.
Contents The Really Useful Literacy Book Linking theory and practice in the primary classroom; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The big ideas; 2 Principles and practices; 3 Foundation Stage: 'Tell me a story'; 4 Foundation Stage: Playing with role: 'Little Boy Blue'; 5 Foundation Stage/Y1: Time for rhyme; 6 Y1: Outside in, inside out, or reading and writing out and about: Environmental print; 7 Y2: Dance your way to a story; 8 Y2: Reporting back: Reading non-fiction and writing non-chronological reports
9 Y3: Shapely poems and calligrams: Starting not from text, but from vocabulary and visual images10 Y3: Dear Giant -- Dear Jack: Creating a sequence of letters; 11 Y4: Cyclones! Information books on same or similar themes: literacy across the curriculum; 12 Y4: Where did our writing come from? Exploring the writing process; 13 Y5: Writing is not speech written down: spoken language and written language: a language-based unit; 14 Y5: Whatever happened to Lucy Gray? Classic poetry; 15 Y6: 'We made the story!' Developing vocabulary and making whole stories with underachieving, uninterested boys
16 Y6: Enjoying a good argument: Writing discursivelyIndex
Summary Now in its third edition, The Really Useful Literacy Book is the definitive guide to the high quality teaching of literacy in your primary classroom. Written specifically for primary school teachers and student trainee teachers, this book offers inventive ideas for the classroom together with an accessible and informative summary of the theories that underpin them. It explores creative approaches to literacy teaching as well as offering a range of units on all areas - speaking, listening, reading and writing. While this book provides creative ideas that can be taken by teachers and developed fo
Notes Previous edition: London: Routledge, 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Literacy -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Great Britain
EDUCATION -- Language Experience Approach.
Literacy -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Lovat, Chira.
Purnell, Glynis.
ISBN 9781136512285
1136512284