Unlocking Literacy: A Guide for TeachersAn edited collection describing key issues in supporting literacy development, this book helps to 'unlock' the mysteries behind helping children learn to read, write, speak and listen. It explores ways to help children develop their skills in literacy, thinking and learning, and shows how literacy teaching can be used creatively and imaginatively with children of all ages and abilities. The new edition of this well-known text:
Interweaving pedagogy with theory and practical suggestions, this book is firmly based in classroom and academic research to support both trainee and practising teacher in the realities of teaching and learning in literacy. |
Contents
creative ways to share reading | 1 |
using poetry with young children | 21 |
using poetry with older children | 38 |
word level work including phonics vocabulary and spelling | 54 |
Chapter 5 Teaching grammar and knowledge about language | 69 |
Chapter 6 Is this write? Learning to write and writing to learn | 90 |
reinstating the place of speaking and listening in the primary classroom | 110 |
speaking listening and drama | 129 |
planning and assessing progress in literacy | 150 |
Chapter 10 Teaching children with special educational needs SEN in the mainstream classroom | 172 |
Chapter 11 Using the interactive whiteboard for wholeclass teaching of reading and writing | 189 |
the world of signs and symbols | 205 |
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