Teaching Literacy: The Creative Approach

✍ Scribed by Fred Sedgwick

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The book covers the teaching of literacy to children aged 5-14, with the emphasis on 5-11. (The material for older students means that the book applies to middle schools as well as primaries). Each chapter shows how students/pupils can develop their own writing skills by learning from passages of great literature. Each section includes: passages from literature; teaching approaches; examples of children's work. The book is rooted in the classroom and practical in nature. The literary texts are in photocopiable format.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Teaching Literacy......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1. Fiction......Page 22
2. Poetry the teacher......Page 52
3. Feigning poetry......Page 88
4. Fragments: more than one kind of prose......Page 116
5. A part of experience, a part of school......Page 149
6. Two big guns: Chaucer and Shakespeare......Page 166
7. Creativity and the Creation......Page 193
Appendices......Page 220
References and bibliography......Page 225
Index......Page 231