Inside the Literacy Hour
Inside the Literacy Hour

Author: Ros Fisher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1134518730

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The National Literacy Strategy is at the heart of the government drive to raise the standards in literacy in schools. Based on a research project conducted in classrooms during the first year of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS), this book provides a practical analysis of the ways in which successful teachers have implemented the Literacy Hour. Taking a reflective approach, it chronicles how teachers have changed their attitudes and practice over the first year, and questions why these changes have occurred. With various descriptions of teachers' practice and examples of children's writing throughout, this is an in-depth, yet down-to-earth reflective analysis of effective literacy teaching. Ros Fisher looks in detail at issues such as; improving the teaching of literacy; researching classroom practice; children's learning in the Literacy Hour; changing practice at Key Stage One and Two and mixed age classes and literacy for four-year-olds.

Teaching Through Texts
Teaching Through Texts

Author: Holly Anderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-02-07

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1134630875

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Drawing on many popular and literary texts, the contributors to this book write with enthusiasm about opportunities for creative teaching and learning, and provide many examples of good practice both inside and outside the Literacy Hour

Raising Standards in Literacy
Raising Standards in Literacy

Author: Greg Brooks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1134503628

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Raising Standards in Literacy represents the best current thinking and research about literacy. The book is the outcome of a high-profile series of seminars on raising standards in literacy, and includes contributions from an impressive group of international researchers and policymakers. By offering a rich and unique mix of contemporary perspectives on literacy education, this book provides an invaluable source of study and insight into the latest research and developments in the teaching of literacy. It includes sections on: * how research into literacy teaching can inform new approaches found in England, the USA and Australia * the ways in which literacy education is developing in England, the USA and Australia * the issues involved in assessing progress in literacy and the validity of research claims made about standards of attainment. The book celebrates the apparent success of current literacy initiatives at the same time as raising questions about the feasibility and relevance of such initiatives to the literacy co-ordinators and consultants and for all those undertaking further study or research in literacy education.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Author: Phyllis Haddox

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1986-06-15

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0671631985

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A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development
Contextualising Difficulties in Literacy Development

Author: Gavin Reid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1136486194

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This book provides a range of interdisciplinary and international perspectives on difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors provide ethical and policy discussions, as well as contextualising individual and collective strategies to addressing difficulties in literacy development. The chapters break new ground by encompassing a wide range of perspectives related to critical literacy, socio-cultural, cognitive, and psychological viewpoints, to help inform practice, policy and research into literacy difficulties. Issues addressed include: *the different ways literacy can be conceptualised through social-science based disciplinary perspectives *the issues at the centre of current public and professional debates surrounding literacy difficulties and how these have impacted upon pedagogical responses *the impact of these wider political and social issues on individual students. This reader forms the basis of the Open University’s Difficulties in Literacy Development course, but will also be of interest to postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, education professionals and policymakers who are keen to address difficulties in literacy development.

Teaching the Literacy Hour in an Inclusive Classroom
Teaching the Literacy Hour in an Inclusive Classroom

Author: Ann Berger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-03

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0429889577

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First published in 1999. This book offers clear, practical advice and guidance on how to encourage and support children who have special educational needs without losing sight of the needs of the rest of the class. The focus is on children with a wide variety of special educational needs including emotional and behavioural difficulties, visual or hearing impairments, speech and language difficulties and autistic spectrum disorders. By looking closely at the key features of each difficulty, the authors show how to plan for these pupils and includes proven strategies.

Meeting Difficulties in Literacy Development
Meeting Difficulties in Literacy Development

Author: Janice Wearmouth

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780415304702

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This book enables practitioners to reflect critically upon the choices available to them in assessing and supporting students who experience difficulties in literacy development. Includes analysis of common barriers such as dyslexia and bilingualism.

Addressing Difficulties in Literacy Development
Addressing Difficulties in Literacy Development

Author: Gavin Reid

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-27

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1136486402

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This book outlines and critiques international strategies and programmes designed to address difficulties in literacy development. The high-profile team of contributors consider teaching programmes which operate at family, school, pupil and teacher levels. They argue that school is not the only legitimate location for literacy education, and show how difficulties in literacy can be addressed sequentially, both in and out of the school context. Issues addressed include: *the dilemmas facing practitioners in choosing between multiple approaches to practice *the factors which must be addressed in strategies which operate at the level of the family and the community *how to ensure the school can support programmes designed to improve literacy learning *how to put theory into practice in programmes designed for use with individual students *the teacher as 'reflective practitioner' - developing professional practice which effectively raises literacy achievement. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students, teachers, researchers, educational professionals and policymakers who are looking for practical strategies to address difficulties in literacy development. This reader forms the basis of the Open University's Difficulties in Literacy Development course, and is ideal for similar courses nationally and internationally.

The Literacy Principal
The Literacy Principal

Author: David Wallace Booth

Publisher: Pembroke Publishers Limited

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1551388014

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This seminal guide to school literacy programs offers an overview of the most successful strategies education leaders can use to build a powerful reading schools.