Teaching Through Texts : Promoting Literacy Through Popular and Literary Texts in the Primary Classroom (Hardcover)

Introduction: teaching through texts?contexts, conventions and contributors 1 Give Yourself a Hug: reading between the rhymes 2 ‘Never be without a Beano!’: comics, children and literacy 3 From Minnie the Minx to Little Lord Fauntleroy: understanding character in fiction 4 Juvenile leads 5 Into the woods: animating stories through drama 6 Drawing lessons from Anthony Browne 7 Beyond the text: metafictive picture-books and sophisticated readers 8 Reading the movies: learning through film 9 ‘My mum’s favourite yoghourt is “Diet Choice’”: language study through environmental texts 10 ‘And they lived happily ever after…not really!’: working with children’s dictated texts 11 Telling facts: contrasting voices in recent information books for children 12 Anne Fine’s stories for life