Engaging Students in Academic Literacies - Sfl Genre Pedagogy for K-8 Classrooms

This text provides information to guide teachers in planning and carrying out genre writing instruction in English for K-8 students within the content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics this book guides teachers by presenting concrete ways to teach writing in the language arts, science, and social science curricula.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Principles for Practice
Chapter 2 Procedure
Chapter 3 Recounts and Memoirs
Chapter 4 Historical Genres
Chapter 5 Fictional Narratives
Chapter 6 Reports
Chapter 7 Explanations
Chapter 8 Arguments
Chapter 9 Enhancing Writing Instruction for Bilingual Learners
Appendix A: Unit Template Sample with Explanations of what to Include

About the author

María Estela Brisk is Professor Emeritus of Language and Literacy at Boston College, USA.

Summary

This text provides information to guide teachers in planning and carrying out genre writing instruction in English for K-8 students within the content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics this book guides teachers by presenting concrete ways to teach writing in the language arts, science, and social science curricula.

Product details

• Authors: María Estela Brisk, Maria Estela (Boston College Brisk
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032359052
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235905-2
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Literature: history & criticism, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Literature: history and criticism, Primary & middle schools, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Primary and middle schools, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, Applied linguistics for ELT