Visual approaches to teaching writing / Eve Bearne and Helen Wolstencroft.
"Why are visual approaches to literacy important? Children's reading and writing worlds are informed by multiple resources, combining different modes of communication and including speech or sound, still or moving images, writing and gesture. ; Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing helps t...
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| Language: | English |
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London : Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Paul Chapman ; SAGE,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
| Summary: | "Why are visual approaches to literacy important? Children's reading and writing worlds are informed by multiple resources, combining different modes of communication and including speech or sound, still or moving images, writing and gesture. ; Visual Approaches to Teaching Writing helps teachers understand how to include multimodal approaches in writing instruction. This practical guide reviews multimodal text design and the relationships between texts and images, and demonstrates how to build a supportive classroom environment for analyzing visual and audiovisual texts. A valuable resource for primary teachers, literacy specialists, and preservice teachers, this text shows educators how to:Plan a teaching sequence leading to specific writing outcomesUse sample teaching sequences for developing work on narrative, non-fiction, and poetry contentApply formative and summative assessments of multimodal texts for judging student developmentWrite, review and carry out a whole-school policy for teaching multimodal writing; The accompanying CD-ROM contains a range of examples of children's work, along with electronic versions of the activities, reproducibles, and material designed for use with interactive whiteboards."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | "UKLA". Accompanied by: 1 computer disc (CD-ROM) |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm + 1 computer disc (12 cm) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-192) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1412930332 9781412930338 1412930340 9781412930345 |