Literacy moves on : popular culture, new technologies, and critical literacy in the elementary classroom / edited by Janet Evans
- Published
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2005]
- Copyright Date
- ©2005
- Physical Description
- xiii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Evans, Janet, 1952-
- Contents
- "New" literacies and children's ways of using them. Multimodal texts: what they are and how children use them / Eve Bearne -- Moving stories: digital editing in the nursery / Jackie Marsh -- Children reading and interpreting stories in print, film, and computer games / Margaret Mackey -- The dagger of doom and the mighty handbag: exploring identity in children's on-screen writing / Guy Merchant -- Focusing on texts with a critical eye: critical literacy in the primary school. Creating opportunities for critical literacy with young children: using everyday issues and everyday text / Vivian Vasquez -- Beanie Babies: an opportunity to promote literacy development or a money-spinner for the business tycoons? / Janet Evans -- Children reread and rewrite their local neighborhoods: critical literacies and identity work / Barbara Comber and Helen Nixon -- Bridging the gap between children's personal interests and teachers' school-based curriculum demands. Curiosity kits: linking reading and play in the middle years / Ros Fisher -- Writing about heroes and villains: fusing children's knowledge about popular fantasy texts with school-based literacy requirements / Elaine Millard -- Getting it right for children: making meaningful connections between culture, community, and school / Dominic Scott.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0325007381 (alk. paper)
9780325007380 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Source of Acquisition
- Berks copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 20078.
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