E-Literature for Children: Enhancing Digital Literacy Learning

✍ Scribed by L. Unsworth

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 160
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As ICT continues to grow as a key resource in the classroom, this book helps students and teachers to get the best out of e-literature, with practical ideas for work schemes for children at all levels.  Len Unsworth draws together functional analyses of language and images and applies them to real-life classroom learning environments, developing pupils’ understanding of ‘text’. The main themes include: What kinds of literary narratives can be accessed electronically? How can language, pictures, sound and hypertext be analysed to highlight the story? How can digital technology enhance literary experiences through web-based 'book talk' and interaction with publishers' websites? How do computer games influence the reader/ player role in relation to how we understand stories?

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 7
Tables......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
1 Children's literature and literacy in the electronic age......Page 17
2 Describing how images and text make meanings in e-literature......Page 27
3 Learning through web contexts of book-based literary narratives......Page 45
4 Classic and contemporary children's literature in electronic formats......Page 60
5 Emerging digital narratives and hyperfiction for children and adolescents......Page 85
6 Electronic game narratives......Page 111
7 Practical programs using e-literature in classroom units of work......Page 125
References......Page 139
Index......Page 147