Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature

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

• ISBN13: 9780195521160
• ISBN10: 0195521161
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-12-17
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Fifth Edition is most comprehensive text in English Education for pre-service teachers. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory in their classrooms.

This accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions help readers to put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and it demonstrates how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginning through to accomplished.

Table of Contents

Part One: Reading
Section One: What is Reading?
1. A Balanced View of Reading
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: 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 Literacy in the Classroom
Part Two: Writing
13. The Role of Writing
14. Writing to Communicate and Imagine
15. The Writing Developmental Continuum
16. Grammar
17. Punctuation
18. Spelling
19. Handwriting
20. Assessment of Writing
21. Multiliteracies and Technology
22. Teaching Writing in the Classroom
Part Three: Literature
23. Literature, the Curriculum and 21st Century Literacy
24. Starting Out: Introducing the Book
25. Early Childhood Literature and Engaged Play
26. Literary Literacies
27. Children's Literature in an Australian Context
28. Fairy tales a Pervasive Paradigm
29. Picture Books and Poetry
30. Visual Literacy: Reading the World of Signs
31. Building Community: First and Second Language Learners and
Indigenous Students
32. A Forum: Social Issues, History and Fantasy
33. The Organic Classroom: A Locus of Creative Literate Practices
34. Conclusion and Beginning