Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature 6e

Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature sixth edition is a comprehensive text for pre-service teachers to learn how to teach literacy. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing, and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory in their classrooms. This new edition has been completely revised and streamlined to create stronger links from education to professional practice. It reflects the changing nature of literacy in the modern world and the impact of technology on teaching and learning. This accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions to help readers put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and demonstrate how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginner through to accomplished.

New to the 6^th edition

• Case studies at the start of each chapter give an introduction to chapter discussion and share practical ideas
• Issues for discussion encourage pre-service teachers to reflect on what they have learned in the chapter. These can also be used for tutorial activities
• In the classroom activities have been updated with current examples to provide relevant real-world examples
• Literacy across the curriculum and Ideas bank provide examples of how literacy can be taught in different areas of the curriculum, including science, assessment, health and physical education, and visual literacy
• A new chapter on Sustainability and a revised chapter on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Asia address the cross-curriculum priorities
• The updated Oxford Wordlist, which includes the 500 words most frequently used by children in their first three years of school.

Contents

• 1. Literacy in the Modern World
• 2. Oral Language
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday

Part 1: Reading

• 3. A Balanced View of Reading
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers
• 4. Towards a Model of Reading
  Marcelle Holliday and Gordon Winch with Jann Carroll
• 5. Word Recognition: Phonics, Phonemes and Phonemic Awareness
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday
• 6. Comprehension: The Meaning of Text
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers
• 7. The Reader and the Text
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers
• 8. Assessment in Reading
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday
• 9. The Effective Teaching of Reading
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Jann Carroll
• 10. Learning to Read: The Child before School
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Maria Nicholas
• 11. Learning to Read: The Early School Years
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Jann Carroll
• 12. Learning to Read: The Primary School Years
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday with Andrew Eyers
• 13. Managing the Literacy Classroom
  Gordon Winch and Marcelle Holliday

Part 2: Writing

• 14. The Role of Writing
  Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March with Andrew Eyers
• 15. The Importance of Writing in Our Society
  Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March with Andrew Eyers
• 16. The Writing Developmental Continuum
  Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March with Jill Colton
• 17. Grammar
  Lesley Ljungdahl
• 18. Punctuation
  Lesley Ljungdahl
• 19. Spelling
  Lesley Ljungdahl
• 20. Handwriting
  Lesley Ljungdahl with Jill Colton
• 21. Assessment of Writing
  Lesley Ljungdahl
• 22. Multiliteracies and Technology
  Lesley Ljungdahl with Jann Carroll
• 23. Teaching Writing in the Classroom
  Lesley Ljungdahl and Paul March

Part 3: Literature

• 24. Literature and the Curriculum
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 25. Starting Out: Introducing the Book
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 26. Early Childhood Literature and Engaged Play
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 27. Increasingly Informed and Literary Ways
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 28. Picturebooks and Poetry: Visual and Verbal Arts
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 29. Visual Literacy: Reading the World of Signs
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 30. Developing Critical and Cultural Literacy with Fairytales
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 31. Stories: A Rich Resource for EAL/D and Indigenous Students
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 32. Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Culture, and Asia
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 33. Cross Curriculum Priority: Sustainability and the Environment
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 34. Literature Across the Curriculum: General Capabilities
  Rosemary Ross Johnston
• 35. Literature Matters! Deep Literacy and a Nation of Readers
  Rosemary Ross Johnston