The Literate Classroom

Now in its fourth edition, The Literate Classroom combines a range of refreshing and challenging viewpoints from experienced classroom practitioners in order to offer practical and effective approaches to teaching reading and writing to primary students. Over the last few years, how teachers talk with children about their learning has been missing from much of the documentation going into school, but with essential information and advice, this book highlights the importance of speaking and listening in literacy learning and recognises the powerful links between reading, writing and dialogic talk. This fully updated edition includes: shared and guided reading and writing comprehension through response to children’s literature guidance on literacy teaching with ELL pupils new chapters on digital literacy, drama for literacy, talk for spelling and poetry. The Literate Classroom describes how the theory behind key areas of literacy teaching can be transformed into realistic learning experiences within the classroom. An accessible and informative collection, this book is a must-have for any teachers of literacy in the primary sector.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents The Literate Classroom: An Introduction Prue Goodwin STARTING POINTS FOR LITERACY Making Space for Reading: Teaching Reading in the Early Years Margaret Perkins Shared Reading and Shared Writing at Key Stage 1 Liz Laycock Young Children Becoming Writers Margaret Perkins ‘THE SEA OF TALK’ Small children Talking Their Way Into Being Readers Judith Graham Talk in Guided Reading Sessions David Reedy A Bridge to Literary Reading Catriona Nicholson Opening the Wardrobe of Voices: Exploring Standard English and Language Variety with 9-10 year-olds Michael Lockwood Language and Literacy for Children who are English Language Learners (ELLs): Developing Linguistically Responsive Teachers Naomi Flynn BECOMING READERS AND WRITERS Readers Making Meaning: Responding to Narrative Tony Martin Reading the Pictures: Children’s Responses to Rose Blanche Catriona Nicholon A Sense of Time and Place: Literature in the Wider Curriculum Gillian Lathey Motivating Children to Write with Purpose and Passion Teresa Cremin Teaching and Learning Spelling Olivia O’Sullivan Talk for Spelling Tony Martin Literacy Learning in a Digital World Julia Gillen and Natalia Kucirkova ENGAGING THE IMAGINATION The Magic Must Not Vanish: Traditional Tales in the Classroom Judith Graham Drama: Enriching Learning in the Literate Classroom Tracy Parvin "Oh no, we did old poems in year 5!" What is the Place of Classic Poetry in the Twenty First Century Classroom? Alison Kelly