Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers [Paperback]

This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.

This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.

A fascinating piece of writing, presenting ideas that are fresh and exciting. Focuses on enhancing students' metalinguistic awareness and not just their intuitive use of words, fostering the development of higher mental functions. A fun, revealing guide acknowledging that an atmosphere of fun, familiar ideas and experiences promote effective instruction. Offers a new approach designed to present classroom teachers with intriguing, different activities. Chapters offer challenges for student and teacher alike and encourage lessons which are refreshingly different. I found the book engaging. Yet, I needed one comprehensive book. I have recommended the book to others.

Thank you.
Rena HarrisPreface
Two Sources of This Approach
Cognitive Tools in Everyday Teaching Practice
Literacy Learners, Young and Old(er)
The Cognitive Tool Kits of Language and Literacy
Planning Frameworks Using Cognitive Tools
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Part I: The Cognitive Toolkit of Oral Language
1. Using the Story Form: Meeting Objectives by Engaging Feelings
Stories and Feelings
Stories in the Classroom
Inventing Comic Characters
Personifying Elements of Language
Creating a Literacy Adventure
Teachers, Try It Out
Final Words
2. Images We Care About: Too, Two, and To
Images Aid Memory and Understanding
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