1st Edition
Managing the Literacy Curriculum
204 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on a critical period for pupils between the ages of nine and thirteen when the demands made on children's literacy change fundamentally, and when children establish life-time patterns of reading and non-reading. It provides a framework for teachers and managers to help set up a whole-school approach to literacy, based on a series of steps which enable managers to find out how... Read more
Introduction 1 Rethinking the meaning of literacy 2 A framework for understanding literacy teaching and learning 3 Auditing the literacy curriculum 4 Literacy and learning in the primary classroom 5 Literacy across a secondary school curriculum 6 Managing the literacy curriculum
Biography
All three authors are based at the University of Bristol. Alec Webster is Director of the Centre for Literacy Studies, Michael Beveridge is Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Education, and Malcolm Reed is Lecturer in the School of Education, and a former Head of English in a secondary school.
