Literacy Reading, Writing and Children's Literature

by Winch, Gordon; Johnston, Rosemary Ross; March, Paul; Ljungdahl, Lesley; Holliday, Marcelle

• ISBN13: 9780195565638
• ISBN10: 0195565630
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the principal literacy theories and show how they may be applied to everyday teaching. Classroom-tested, this text for English Education remains reader-friendly, practical, current, and unique in its inclusion of children's literature. This new edition has been updated significantly, including: a heavilt revised Part One, which focuses on oral language, assessment, phonics and comprehension; a new larger format with two-color internal design to assist readability; and guidance on how pre-service teachers may apply their learning to suit new and unfamiliar teaching environments and curriculum documents.

Author Biography

Gordon Winch is author and educational consultant. He was previously Head of the Department of English at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, now the Lindfield campus of the University of Technology, Sydney.

Rosemary Ross Johnston is Professor and Head of Education in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney. She is Founding Director of the Australian Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing.

Paul March is an Associate of the Centre for Child and Youth: Culture and Wellbeing at the University of Technology, Sydney and former Senior Lecturer within the School of Teacher Education at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Lesley Ljungdahl is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Marcelle Holliday is education consultant, writer of online learning materials, and lecturer at the Australian Catholic University, New South Wales.

Table of Contents

Part One: Reading, Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday
Section One: What is Reading?
1. A Balanced View of Literacy
2. Towards a Model of Reading
Section Two: Key Elements in Learning to Read
3. Oral Language
4. Word Recognition: Phonics, Phonemes and Phonemic Awareness
5. Comprehension: The Meaning of Text
6. The Reader and the Text
Section Three: Planning and Teaching Reading
7. Assessment in Reading
8. The Effective Teaching of Reading
9. Learning to Read: The Child before School
10. Learning to Read: The Early School Years
11. Learning to Read: The Primary School Years
12 Managing the Literacy Classroom
Part Two: Writing, Lesley ljungdahl and Paul March
13. The Role of Writing
14. The Importance of Writing in Our Society
15. The Writing Developmental Continuim
16. Grammar
17. Punctuation
18. Spelling
19. Handwriting
20. Assessment of Writing
21. Multiliteracies in Technology
22. Teaching Writing in the Classroom
Part Three: Literature, Rosemary Ross Johnston
23. Language, Literature, Literacy and the Australian Curriculum
24. The Literature Continuum and Deep Literacy
25. Children's Literature in the Australian Context
26. Literature and Critical Literacy
27. Digital Literacies and Literature
28. Theory Informing Practice, Practice Informing Theory
29. Fairytales: Still a Pervasive Paradigm
30. Picturebooks and Poetry
31. Visual Literacy: Reading the World of Signs
32. Literature as world community: First and Second Language Learners
33. A Forum: Social Issues, History, and Fantasy
34. The Organic Classroom: A Locus of Creative Literate Practices
35. Conclusion--And Beginning...
Answers to Quiz in Chapter 4
Appendix 1: Key Australian Literacy ContactsAppendix 2: Oxford Wordlist