4th Edition

The Literate Classroom

Edited By Prue Goodwin Copyright 2018
    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    220 Pages
    by Routledge

    Now in its fourth edition, The Literate Classroom combines a range of refreshing and challenging viewpoints from experienced classroom practitioners in order to offer practical and effective approaches to teaching reading and writing to primary students. Over the last few years, how teachers talk with children about their learning has been missing from much of the documentation going into school, but with essential information and advice, this book highlights the importance of speaking and listening in literacy learning and recognises the powerful links between reading, writing and dialogic talk.

    This fully updated edition includes:

    • shared and guided reading and writing
    • comprehension through response to children’s literature
    • guidance on literacy teaching with ELL pupils
    • new chapters on digital literacy, drama for literacy, talk for spelling and poetry.

    The Literate Classroom describes how the theory behind key areas of literacy teaching can be transformed into realistic learning experiences within the classroom. An accessible and informative collection, this book is a must-have for any teachers of literacy in the primary sector.

    Table of Contents

    The Literate Classroom: An Introduction
    Prue Goodwin

    STARTING POINTS FOR LITERACY

    1. Making Space for Reading: Teaching Reading in the Early Years
      Margaret Perkins
    2. Shared Reading and Shared Writing at Key Stage 1
      Liz Laycock
    3. Young Children Becoming Writers
      Margaret Perkins
    4. ‘THE SEA OF TALK’

    5. Small children Talking Their Way Into Being Readers
      Judith Graham
    6. Talk in Guided Reading Sessions
      David Reedy
    7. A Bridge to Literary Reading
      Catriona Nicholson
    8. Opening the Wardrobe of Voices: Exploring Standard English and Language Variety with 9-10 year-olds
      Michael Lockwood
    9. Language and Literacy for Children who are English Language Learners (ELLs): Developing Linguistically Responsive Teachers
      Naomi Flynn
    10. BECOMING READERS AND WRITERS

    11. Readers Making Meaning: Responding to Narrative
      Tony Martin
    12. Reading the Pictures: Children’s Responses to Rose Blanche
      Catriona Nicholon
    13. A Sense of Time and Place: Literature in the Wider Curriculum
      Gillian Lathey
    14. Motivating Children to Write with Purpose and Passion
      Teresa Cremin
    15. Teaching and Learning Spelling
      Olivia O’Sullivan
    16. Talk for Spelling
      Tony Martin
    17. Literacy Learning in a Digital World
      Julia Gillen and Natalia Kucirkova
    18. ENGAGING THE IMAGINATION

    19. The Magic Must Not Vanish: Traditional Tales in the Classroom
      Judith Graham
    20. Drama: Enriching Learning in the Literate Classroom
      Tracy Parvin
    21. "Oh no, we did old poems in year 5!" What is the Place of Classic Poetry in the Twenty First Century Classroom?
      Alison Kelly

    Biography

    Prue Goodwin is a lecturer on literacy education and children’s books. Having spent many years working at the University of Reading, she is now freelance as a lecturer to education professionals and a consultant to children’s publishers.