| Description |
ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Greater Expectations: Reflections of Difference -- Pt. 1. Taking on the Texts. 1. Bridging the Gap: Making Links between Children's Reading and Writing / Claire Escott. 2. About as Big as the Library: Using Quality Texts in the Development of Children as Readers and Writers / Holly Anderson. 3. Bringing Out the Beast in Them: Reflections on Gender and Children's Use of Traditional Stories / David Whitley -- Pt. 2. Developing Discrimination. 4. 'I Also Read to Jinxy My Kitten': Children Writing Reading Journals / Mike Millroy. 5. Up and Up: Young Critical Readers / Janet Towlson. 6. The Marks on the Page: Children as Editors / Rachel Sparks Linfield. 7. Looking for the Pattern: Bilingual Readers Writing / Ian Eyres -- Pt. 3. Text and Intertext. 8. 'Why Are We Doing This?': One Child Coming to Literacy / Mary Waterson. 9. 'It's Not the Same as the Real World': Boys, Girls, Books and Gender / Angela Ridley |
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10. Love at First Sight? Children Who Have Special Educational Needs Working on Romeo and Juliet / Peter Fifield. 11. Rhyme Time: the Naming of Experience / Sarah Theaker |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Reading -- Great Britain.
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English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain.
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Literacy -- Great Britain.
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| Author |
Bearne, Eve, 1943-
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| LC no. |
97131992 //r98 |
| ISBN |
0304331686 |
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0304331708 paperback |
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