Full Description
Your literacy guide to take into the profession, Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Sixth Edition, is the most comprehensive text for pre-service teachers to learn how to teach literacy. 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 new edition has been completely revised and streamlined to create stronger links from education to professional practice. The accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions to help readers put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and demonstrate how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginner through to accomplished.
Contents
1.Literacy in the Modern World 2.Oral Language Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday PART 1: READING 3.A Balanced View of Reading Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers 4.Towards a Model of Reading Marcelle Holliday and Gordon Winch with Jann Carroll 5.Word Recognition: Phonics, Phonemes and Phonemic Awareness Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday 6.Comprehension: The Meaning of Text Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers 7.The Reader and the Text Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers 8.Assessment in Reading Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday 9.The Effective Teaching of Reading Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Jann Carroll 10.Learning to Read: The Child before School Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Maria Nicholas 11.Learning to Read: The Early School Years Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Jann Carroll 12.Learning to Read: The Primary School Years Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers 13.Managing the Literacy Classroom Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday PART 2: WRITING 14.The Role of Writing Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March with Andrew Eyers 15.The Importance of Writing in Our Society Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March with Andrew Eyers 16.The Writing Developmental Continuum Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March with Jill Colton 17. Grammar Lesley Ljungdahl 18. Punctuation Lesley Ljungdahl 19.Spelling Lesley Ljungdahl 20.Handwriting Lesley Ljungdahl with Jill Colton 21.Assessment of Writing Lesley Ljungdahl 22.Multiliteracies and Technology Lesley Ljungdahl with Jann Carroll 23.Teaching Writing in the Classroom Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March PART 3: LITERATURE 24.Literature and the Curriculum Rosemary Ross Johnston 25.Starting Out: Introducing the Book Rosemary Ross Johnston 26.Early Childhood Literature and Engaged Play Rosemary Ross Johnston 27.Increasingly Informed and Literary Ways Rosemary Ross Johnston 28.Picturebooks and Poetry: Visual and Verbal Arts Rosemary Ross Johnston 29.Visual Literacy: Reading the World of Signs Rosemary Ross Johnston 30.Developing Critical and Cultural Literacy with Fairytales Rosemary Ross Johnston 31.Stories: A Rich Resource for EAL/D and Indigenous Students Rosemary Ross Johnston 32.Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, and Asia Rosemary Ross Johnston 33.Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability and the Environment Rosemary Ross Johnston 34.Literature Across the Curriculum: General Capabilities Rosemary Ross Johnston 35.Literature Matters! Deep Literacy and a Nation of Readers Rosemary Ross Johnston
