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This essential and practical book explores key themes in literacy education such as diversity, drama, literacy and play, reader response, grammar and children's authorship to understand the interrelationship between children's diverse literacy practices and ways that these can be mediated within the English school curriculum.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Principles for Literacy Education in a World of Diverse Literacy Practices
Chapter 2: Encountering Literacies in Early Years Classrooms
Chapter 3: Reading Aloud
Chapter 4: Diversity and Identity in a Language Rich Learning Environment
Chapter 5: Dialogic Teaching: From Theory to Getting Started in Practice
Chapter 6: Stories of Writing in the Classroom
Chapter 7: Exploring the Teaching and Learning of Grammar
Chapter 8: Children as critical consumers and producers of multimodal texts
Chapter 9: Inclusive Literacy Classrooms
Chapter 10: Drawing on Children's Digital Repertoires to Enable Playful Digital Literacies in the Primary Classroom
Chapter 11: Drama, Movement and Meaning Making
Chapter 12: Changing Literacies and Changing Literacy Education
About the author
Karen Daniels is Associate Professor of Early Literacies at Sheffield Hallam University. Karen began her career as a primary and early years teacher and moved into higher education in 2010. Her current research involves exploring the relationships between embodied meaning making and children's early literacy practices.
Marie Helks is an Associate Head at Sheffield Institute of Education (SIoE). Before joining Sheffield Hallam University in 2012, Marie taught in a number of primary schools and universities, holding responsibility for English subject development work. Her main research interest is grammar teaching and learning in primary education.
Summary
This essential and practical book explores key themes in literacy education such as diversity, drama, literacy and play, reader response, grammar and children’s authorship to understand the interrelationship between children’s diverse literacy practices and ways that these can be mediated within the English school curriculum.
