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9781412927888

Teaching Literacy : Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers

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    9781412927888

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    1412927889

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-04-05
  • Publisher: Corwin Pr

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Summary

This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.

Table of Contents

Preface vi
Acknowledgments xi
About the Author xii
PART I: THE COGNITIVE TOOL KIT OF ORAL LANGUAGE
1(58)
Using the Story Form: Meeting Objectives by Engaging Feelings
3(13)
Stories and Feelings
4(2)
Stories in the Classroom
6(5)
Inventing Comic Characters
11(1)
Personifying Elements of Language
12(1)
Creating a Literacy Adventure
12(2)
Teachers, Try It Out
14(1)
Final Words
14(2)
Images We Care About: Too, Two, and To
16(10)
Images Aid Memory and Understanding
17(2)
Tying Concepts to Images
19(3)
From Images to Letter Representation
22(3)
Teachers, Try It Out
25(1)
Final Words
25(1)
Binary Opposites: Goldilocks and Civil War
26(7)
Using Opposites to Expand Upon Understanding
27(2)
Mediating Binary Opposites
29(2)
Teachers, Try It Out
31(1)
Final Words
32(1)
Literal and Metaphoric Talk: ``Like a Spring-Woken Tree''
33(6)
Recognizing and Reflecting on Language
34(1)
Similes
34(2)
Metaphors
36(1)
Teachers, Try It Out
37(1)
Final Words
37(2)
Jokes: Drawing the Drapes
39(5)
Joking and ``Seeing'' Language
40(2)
Humor in Amelia Bedelia
42(1)
Reading Puzzles
42(1)
Teachers, Try It Out
43(1)
Final Words
43(1)
Rhyme and Rhythm: Mickey Mouse's Underwear
44(7)
Echo Rhymes
45(1)
Rhyme and Rhythm: Ring, Rang, Rung
46(1)
Nursery Rhymes
47(2)
Teachers, Try It Out
49(1)
Final Words
50(1)
Living Knowledge: Barbie and The Matrix
51(8)
Embedding Knowledge in Students' Lifeworlds
53(2)
Children's Lifeworlds
55(4)
Conclusion to Part I
57(2)
PART II: THE COGNITIVE TOOL KIT OF LITERACY
59(38)
Extremes: The Queueing Subbookkeeper
61(7)
The Strange, Exotic, Different, and Wonderful
61(1)
Fascinating Reality
62(1)
Metalinguistic Awareness
63(1)
Exploring Extremes
64(1)
Wonder in the Classroom
65(2)
Teachers, Try It Out
67(1)
Final Words
67(1)
Everyday Heroes: Spiderman and the Comma
68(7)
Heroizing Literacy Tasks
69(1)
Heroes in the Classroom
69(3)
Heroic Experiences
72(1)
Teachers, Try It Out
73(1)
Final Words
74(1)
Human Contexts: John Montagu, The Earl of Sandwich
75(6)
Knowledge in a Meaningful Context
76(1)
Linking Language With Purpose
77(2)
Teachers, Try It Out
79(1)
Final Words
79(2)
Collections and Hobbies: Alphabets and Beanie Babies
81(8)
Collecting Letters and Words
82(2)
Literacy as a Hobby
84(3)
Teachers, Try It Out
87(1)
Final Words
88(1)
Graphic Organizers: Lists and Flowcharts
89(8)
From the Ear to the Eye
89(1)
Visual Tools
90(3)
Teachers, Try It Out
93(1)
Final Words
93(4)
Conclusion to Part II
94(3)
PART III: PLANNING FRAMEWORKS
97(35)
Framework 1
99(14)
Mythic Planning Framework
101(5)
Example: A Lesson on Homonyms
106(7)
Framework 2
113(19)
The Romantic Planning Framework
114(6)
Example: A Lesson on the Comma
120(11)
The Frameworks and You
131(1)
Conclusion 132(2)
Appendix: Responses to the ``Teachers, Try It Out'' Questions 134(24)
Gillian C. Judson
References 158(1)
Index 159

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