Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11

Looking for time saving ways to choose books relevant to a specific literacy context? Use this book to help you easily choose children's books to work with and how they can be used to enhance literacy teaching and learning. This informative guide provides a clear analysis of all the text types your pupils will encounter during their primary years, and provides a strong grounding in relevant professional issues, useful journals and websites. It includes: detailed annotated lists of relevant books in each literacy category advice on how to help children use and enjoy books and other texts case studies that show they have helped to extend the responses of pupils.This comprehensive yet accessible guide will aid all Early Years and primary teachers and literacy consultants in making quick and effective choices on what books to use when teaching a particular literacy element of the National Curriculum for England and the 'Primary National Strategy'. This book is essential reading for student teachers on PGCE and BEd courses and for teachers undertaking continuing professional development in English, literacy or children's literature.

ISBN 1843123223   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781843123224 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 746 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint David Fulton Publishers Ltd   Height (mm) 246 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 174 Publication date 24 Jun 2010   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY 809   Academic level Undergraduate DEWEY edition DC22   Alternative ISBN 9780415484589 Pages 416

		List of figures
		List of boxes
		List of case studies
		Acknowledgements
		Preface
PART I		FICTION		1
1		Introduction to Part I		3
2		Children's literature: some key strands		7
		The critical study of children's literature		7
		Links between children's literature and children's development as readers		8
		Reviewing children's fiction		10
		Summary		11
3		Fiction in the classroom: resources, organization of teaching and learning, some issues and assessment and record keeping		12
		Introduction		12
		Resources		12
		The reading and literacy area		13
		The school library		13
		The organization of teaching and learning		14
		Some issues and questions		16
		Making progress as a reader of fiction: assessment and record keeping		21
		Summary		22
4		Picturebooks		23
		Introduction		23
		Features of picturebooks		23
		Criteria for choosing		25
		Choosing picturebooks for different age groups		26
		Wordless picturebooks, classic picturebooks and picturebooks by new illustrators		33
		Using picturebooks		34
		Assessing and recording progress		41
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