Teaching Through Texts: Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom

by Anderson,Holly; Anderson,Holly

• ISBN13: 9780415203074
• ISBN10: 0415203074
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134630875
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Teaching Through Textsuses a wide range of genres including poetry, payscripts, picture books, performance texts, comics, cinema-texts, novels, non-fiction and pupils' own narratives to show how exciting it can be to teach literacy effectively in the primary classroom.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction: teaching through texts -- contexts, conventions and contributors	1	(12)
Morag Styles
Give Yourself a Hug: reading between the rhymes	13	(16)
Vivienne Smith
`Never be without a Beano!': comics, children and literacy	29	(14)
Helen Bromley
From Minnie the Minx to Little Lord Fauntleroy: understanding character in fiction	43	(15)
Chris Doddington
Juvenile leads	58	(6)
Nick Warburton
Into the woods: animating stories through drama	64	(18)
Andy Kempe
Drawing lessons from Anthony Browne	82	(12)
Mary Purdon
Beyond the text: metafictive picture-books and sophisticated readers	94	(9)
Kate Rabey
Reading the movies: learning through film	103	(8)
Sarah Jones
`My mum's favourite yoghourt is ``Diet Choice''': language study through environmental texts	111	(11)
Holly Anderson
`And they live happily ever after ... not really!': working with children's dictated texts	122	(14)
Isobel Urquhart
Telling facts: contrasting voices in recent information books for children	136	(14)
Frances Smith
Anne Fine's stories for life	150	(12)
Jim Jones
Postscript	162	(2)
Anne Fine
Index	164