Literacy Moves On

This book enhances teachers' awareness of the developments within the primary classroom and how they can use them to improve the literacy skills of their pupils.

Edited by Janet Evans

Children's voices; Introduction, Janet Evans; Part 1 PART 1 'New' literacies and children's ways of using them; Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Multimodal texts, Eve Bearne; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Moving stories, Jackie Marsh; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Children reading and interpreting stories in print, film and computer games, Margaret Mackey; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 The Dagger of Doom and the Mighty Handbag, Guy Merchant; Part 2 PART 2 Focusing on texts with a critical eye: Critical literacy in the primary school; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Creating opportunities for critical literacy with young children, Vivian Vasquez; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Beanie Babies, Janet Evans; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Children reread and rewrite their local neighbourhoods: critical literacies and identity work, Barbara Comber, Helen Nixon; Part 3 PART 3 Bridging the gap between children's personal interests and teachers' school-based curriculum demands; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 Curiosity Kits:, Ros Fisher; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Writing about heroes and villains, Elaine Millard; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 Getting it right for children, Dominic ScottIndex;