Teaching Multiliteracies Across the Curriculum - Changing Contexts of Text and Image in Classroom Practice

Klappentext Teaching literacy in today's primary and junior secondary schools involves both teaching children what people understand as traditional literacy and also teaching children how to read and produce the kinds of texts typical of the current and emerging information age. This still means understanding grammar as a functional tool in reading and writing but it also now necessarily entails explicit knowledge about how images and layout can be structured in different ways to make different kinds of meanings and how both text and image are used in electronic formats. This major textbook outlines the basic theoretical knowledge teachers need to have about visual and verbal grammar and the nature of computer-based texts in school learning. In doing so it: * addresses both the present demands in literacy teaching and the emerging demands for teaching the multiliteracies of the information age * provides accessible! integrative! classroom oriented coverage of the complex range of current and emerging issues (like teaching grammar! visual literacy! the role of computer-based information and communication technology! critical literacy! literacies and learning in English and other curriculum areas) * includes both theoretical frameworks and detailed practical guidelines with examples of classroom work * deals with the continuities and differences in the teaching of infants! children in the primary school and the transition to the first years of secondary education Zusammenfassung Outlines the basic theoretical knowledge that teachers need to have about visual and verbal grammar and the nature of computer-based texts in school learning. This book deals with the continuities and differences in the teaching of infants! children in the primary school and the transition to the first years of secondary education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Changing dimensions of school literacies Learning about language as a resource for literacy development Describing visual literacies Distinguishing the literacies of school science and humanities Exploring multimodal meaning-making in literature for children Developing multiliteracies in the early school years Developing multiliteracies in content area teaching Teaching multiliteracies in the English classroom References Index. ...

Product details

• Authors: Len Unsworth
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780335206049
• ISBN: 978-0-335-20604-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: UK Higher Education OUP Humanities & Social Sciences Education OUP
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics