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
Making Space for Reading: Teaching Reading in the Early Years
Margaret Perkins
Shared Reading and Shared Writing at Key Stage 1
Liz Laycock
Young Children Becoming Writers
Margaret Perkins
'THE SEA OF TALK'
Small children Talking Their Way Into Being Readers
Judith Graham
Talk in Guided Reading Sessions
David Reedy
A Bridge to Literary Reading
Catriona Nicholson
Opening the Wardrobe of Voices: Exploring Standard English and Language Variety with 9-10 year-olds
Michael Lockwood
Language and Literacy for Children who are English Language Learners (ELLs): Developing Linguistically Responsive Teachers
Naomi Flynn
BECOMING READERS AND WRITERS
Readers Making Meaning: Responding to Narrative
Tony Martin
Reading the Pictures: Children's Responses to Rose Blanche
Catriona Nicholon
A Sense of Time and Place: Literature in the Wider Curriculum
Gillian Lathey
Motivating Children to Write with Purpose and Passion
Teresa Cremin
Teaching and Learning Spelling
Olivia O'Sullivan
Talk for Spelling
Tony Martin
Literacy Learning in a Digital World
Julia Gillen and Natalia Kucirkova
ENGAGING THE IMAGINATION
The Magic Must Not Vanish: Traditional Tales in the Classroom
Judith Graham
Drama: Enriching Learning in the Literate Classroom
Tracy Parvin
"Oh no, we did old poems in year 5!" What is the Place of Classic Poetry in the Twenty First Century Classroom?
Alison Kelly
