This practical handbook shows teachers how to help students develop literacy skills they need in the real world, including: writing and deciphering messages -- phone messages, thank you notes, directions, and letters making purchases -- buying online, reading package labels, writing checks, writing
Literacies, Literature and Learning: Reading Classrooms Differently
β Scribed by Karin Murris and Joanna Haynes
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 247
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Part I How to find gold in literacies
1 Philosophical playthinking in a South African literacy βclassroomβ
2 Posthumanism, de/colonising education and child(hoods) in South Africa
3 Philosophy for Children: a postdevelopmental relationality
4 The βclassroomβ and posthuman research methodologies
Part II Finding gold in a South African literacy classroom
5 Beyond words: materiality and the play of things
6 Bodies with legs: βfidgetingβ and how recording practices matter
7 Chairs and questions at work in literacies
8 Digging and diving for treasure: erasures, silences and secrets
9 The text in the classroom: decolonial reading practices
10 Philosopher children moving through spacetime
11 Facilitating and difficultating: the cultivation of teacher ignorance and inventiveness
Contributors
Index
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