Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11
A Comprehensive Guide for Teachers and Student Teachers
Price: $37.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-1-84312-322-4
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: David Fulton Publis
- Publication Date: 30th June 2008
- Pages: 352
About the Book
Looking for time saving ways to choose books relevant to a specific literacy context? Use this book to help you easily choose children’s books to work with and how they can be used to enhance literacy teaching and learning. This informative guide provides a clear analysis of all the text types your pupils will encounter during their primary years, and provides a strong grounding in relevant professional issues, useful journals and websites. It includes:
- detailed annotated lists of relevant books in each literacy category
- advice on how to help children use and enjoy books and other texts
- case studies that show they have helped to extend the responses of pupils.
This comprehensive yet accessible guide will aid all Early Years and primary teachers and literacy consultants in making quick and effective choices on what books to use when teaching a particular literacy element of the National Curriculum for England and the Primary National Strategy.
This book is essential reading for student teachers on PGCE and BEd courses and for teachers undertaking continuing professional development in English, literacy or children's literature.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Fiction Introduction to Part 1: The Nature and Power of Fiction 1. A brief history 2. Fiction in English lessons and across the curriculum 3. Picturebooks 4. Traditional tales 5. Short stories 6. Genre fiction 7. Novels, realistic 8. Novels, historical 9. Playscripts 10. Poetry 11. Assessment and Record keeping at different stages Part 2. Non-Fiction Introduction to Part 2 12. A Short History 13. Purposes of Non-fiction – function in society 14. Kinds of non-fiction and implications of particular media 15. Models of non-fiction reading and writing 16. Early books 17. Recounts at key stages 1 and 2 18. Procedural/Instructional 19. Report and Reference texts 20. Explanation 21. Persuasion and Discussion 22. Assessment and record keeping
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