1st Edition
Literacy Moves On Using Popular Culture, New Technologies and Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroom
Edited By Janet Evans
Copyright 2004
196 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
196 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
196 Pages
by
David Fulton Publishers
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This book looks at the changing nature of literacy and at the way in which new and different literacies are emerging in the first part of the 21st century. It considers how children are shaping and being shaped by these changes, it also looks at how teachers need to bridge-the-gap between children's out of school interests and school based curriculum demands. This edited collection, which... Read more
Children's voices; Introduction, Janet Evans; Part 1 PART 1 ‘New’ literacies and children's ways of using them; Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Multimodal texts, Eve Bearne; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Moving stories, Jackie Marsh; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Children reading and interpreting stories in print, film and computer games, Margaret Mackey; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 The Dagger of Doom and the Mighty Handbag, Guy Merchant; Part 2 PART 2 Focusing on texts with a critical eye: Critical literacy in the primary school; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Creating opportunities for critical literacy with young children, Vivian Vasquez; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Beanie Babies, Janet Evans; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Children reread and rewrite their local neighbourhoods: critical literacies and identity work, Barbara Comber, Helen Nixon; Part 3 PART 3 Bridging the gap between children's personal interests and teachers' school-based curriculum demands; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 Curiosity Kits:, Ros Fisher; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Writing about heroes and villains, Elaine Millard; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 Getting it right for children, Dominic ScottIndex;
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Edited by Janet Evans
