The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed to guide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales, English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum inNorthern Ireland, the Oxford Literacy Web guides pupils through the core skills associated with learning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry.The "Non-Fiction" strand is a series of colourful, lively information books. They can be used to teach valuable information retrieval and research skills, and they enable children to learn to read and write a range of different text types. The books can be used with children at different levels ofreading ability for shared reading with the teacher, guided reading, or independent reading. The First Non-Fiction books are designed to be used with children at Reception or Year 1. They present a range of text types on a variety of infant topics at a very low reading level (there is normally nomore than one or two lines of text per page). The books are available in both standard and `big book' format.Heating Food shows the effect of heat on different types of food.

Oxford Literacy Web

Education & Teaching

Wray, David

Schools & Teaching

Oxford University Press

Considerable interest has been aroused by the linked ideas of metalinguistic awareness and metacognition in reading. This book draws together insights from these two fields and presents a summary of current research in non-technical language which is accessible to the non-specialist. The teaching implications of the latest findings are considered.

Literacy & awareness (Literacy and learning series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hodder & Stoughton, in association with the United Kingdom Reading Association

Primary school children must now demonstrate confident and convincing skills in speaking, listening, writing and reading. How are their teachers to achieve this? In this book, David Wray and Jane Medwell provide a set of strategies for the teacher to understand literacy development, to promote these essential skills in collaboration with their pupils and to create a classroom environment in which talk and literacy are central. The book is written not only in the context of the nationally-prescribed UK curriculum, but also in response to other developments in language and literacy research - particularly the renewed emphasis on the collaborative, social context of learning and the whole language approach which stresses the interlinking of reading, writing, speaking and listening processes. Included are chapters on the phenomenon of language, the role of stories, literacy across the curriculum, new technology and assessment. Each chapter is linked to a component of the National Curriculum Programme.

Literacy and language in the primary years

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Routledge

Linking the development of reading, writing, speaking and listening, the authors emphasise the value of active, collaborative learning and include sections on literacy across the primary curriculum, new technology and assessment.

Literacy and Language in the Primary Years

Medwell, Jane

This book focuses on the approaches to the teaching of primary English at Key Stage 2 in the context of the National Curriculum.

English 7-11: Developing Primary Teaching Skills (Curriculum in Primary Practice)

Words, Language & Grammar

Extending Literacy: Children Reading and Writing Non-Fiction

One of the most problematic areas in the teaching and development of literacy appears to concern children's interactions with non-fiction books. Many surveys and reports have commented on the tendency for children to do little more than copy out sections of non-fiction texts. The Exeter Extending Literacy (EXEL) project was set up with the aim of exploring ways in which non-fiction might be used more effectively and profitably than this. In this book David Wray and Maureen Lewis outline the thinking behind the project and describe in detail the many useful teaching strategies and approaches which were developed in collaboration with primary teachers across the country. Teachers of children from five to fourteen will find this book both a stimulating account of a very influential development project and a useful source of practical teaching ideas.

Extending Literacy: Developing Approaches to Non-Fiction

Lewis, Maureen

Today's classroom presents a wealth of opportunities for social interaction amongst pupils, leading to increased interest in teachers and researchers into the social nature of learning. While classroom interaction can be a valuable tool for learning, it does not necessarily lead to useful learning experiences. Through case studies, this book highlights the use of new analytical methodologies for studying the content and patterns of children's interactions and how these contribute to their construction of knowledge. Classroom Interaction and Social Learning will be of interest to students and in service teachers and researchers concerned with classroom discourse and learning.

Classroom Interactions and Social Learning: From Theory to Practice

Kumpulainen, Kristiina

Sociology

Today's classroom presents a wealth of opportunities for social interaction amongst pupils, leading to increased interest in teachers and researchers into the social nature of learning. While classroom interaction can be a valuable tool for learning, it does not necessarily lead to useful learning experiences. Through case studies, this book highlights the use of new analytical methodologies for studying the content and patterns of children's interactions and how these contribute to their construction of knowledge. Classroom Interaction and Social Learning will be of interest to students and in service teachers and researchers concerned with classroom discourse and learning.

Classroom Interaction and Social Learning: From Theory to Practice

Teaching Literacy Effectively in the Primary School (Language and Literacy in Action)

This book discusses the implications arising from the authors' research into what constitutes an effective teacher of literacy. They have been able to identify what effective teachers know, understand and do which enable them to put effective teaching of literacy into practice in the primary phase. By identifying the strategies used by these teachers, the authors show how these can be applied by other primary teachers to improve their teaching of literacy.

Fox, Richard

Poulson, Louise

Catullus and the Poetics of Roman Manhood

This literary study of the first-century BCE Roman poet, Catullus uses two sets of comparative models to offer a new understanding of his poems. The first consists of cultural anthropological accounts of male social interaction in the premodern Mediterranean, and the second, the postmodern poetics of such twentieth-century poets as Louis Zukofsky, which are characterized by simultaneous juxtaposition, a "collage" aesthetic, and self-allusive play. The book will be of interest to students of comparative literature and gender studies as well as to classicists.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Cambridge University Press

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