The literate classroom edited by Prue Goodwin.

Contents

Part 1: Starting Points
1. Making space for reading: teaching reading in the Early Years
2. Shared reading and shared writing at Key Stage 1
3. Working with words: vocabulary development in the primary school

Part 2: "The Sea of Talk"
4. Small Children talking their way into being readers
5. Talk in guided reading sessions
6. A bridge of literary reading
7. Working with pupils with English as an additional language

Part 3: Becoming Readers
8. Readers making meaning: responding to narrative
9. A sense of time and place: literature in the wider curriculum
reading the pictures: Children's responses to Rose Blanche

Part 4: Becoming writers
11. Motivating children to write with purpose and passion
12. The problems and possibilities of non-fiction writing
13. Developing children's narrative writing using story structures
Teaching and learning spelling / Olivia O'Sullivan

Part 5: Engaging the imagination
The magic must not vanish: traditional tales in the classroom
16. 'Oh no, we did old poems in Year 5!' What is the place of classic poetry in the twenty-first century classroom?
17. Opening the wardrobe of voices: standard English and language variation at Key Stage 2
18. The role of drama in the literate classroom

Includes index