Teaching Literacy Across the Primary Curriculum [Paperback]

Teaching literacy across the curriculum can enhance effectiveness of learning and teaching, and this book demonstrates how this can be achieved. It explores approaches to teaching and developing literacy in a range of subject areas and is suitable for trainees and qualified teachers who wish to improve their practice and understanding of teaching literacy.The book shows that teaching literacy across the curriculum can enhance learning and teaching effectiveness, and demonstrates how this can be achieved. As ever, David Wray delivers an intelligent, lucid and accessible book underpinned by research and scholarship (Senior Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University)Introduction
Why literacy across the curriculum?
Text types across the primary curriculum
Teaching non-fiction reading
Strategies for non-fiction reading
Teaching non-fiction writing
Literacy across the primary curriculum: Looking at science
Literacy across the primary curriculum: Looking at mathematics
Exploring electronic texts across the primary curriculum
Index