Teaching Literacy: Engaging the Imagination of New Readers and Writers

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Corwin Press, 5. 4. 2006 - Počet stran: 163
For teachers charged with the great responsibility of helping students achieve basic literacy, delivering instruction in stimulating and engaging ways is not an ideal-it's a necessity. Recognizing this, award-winning author and educator Kieran Egan puts the fun in fundamentals of literacy by helping teachers stir students' imagination and emotions.
 

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Part I The Cognitive Tool Kit of Oral Language
1
Meeting Objectives by Engaging Feelings
3
Stories and Feelings
4
Stories in the Classroom
6
Inventing Comic Characters
11
Personifying Elements of Language
12
Teachers Try it Out
14
Too Two and to
16
Fascinating Reality
62
Metalinguistic Awareness
63
Exploring Extremes
64
Wonder in the Classroom
65
Teachers Try it out
67
Spiderman and the Comma
68
Heroizing Literacy Tasks
69
Heroic Experiences
72

Images Aid Memory and Understanding
17
Tying Concepts to Images
19
From Images to Letter Representation
22
Teachers Try it out
25
Goldilocks and Civil War
26
Using Opposites to Expand upon Understanding
27
Mediating Binary Opposites
29
Teachers Try it out
31
Final Words
32
Like a SpringWoken Tree
33
Recognizing and Reflecting on Language
34
Metaphors
36
Teachers Try it out
37
Drawing the Drapes
39
Joking and Seeing Language
40
Humor in Amelia Bedelia
42
Teachers Try it out
43
Mickey Mouses Underwear
44
Echo Rhymes
45
Ring Rang Rung
46
Nursery Rhymes
47
Teachers Try it out
49
Final Words
50
Barbie and The Matrix
51
Embedding Knowledge in Students Lifeworlds
53
Childrens Lifeworlds
55
Conclusion to Part I
57
Part II The Cognitive Tool Kit of Literacy
59
The Queueing Subbookkeeper
61
Teachers Try it out
73
Final Words
74
John Montagu the Earl of Sandwich
75
Knowledge in a Meaningful Context
76
Linking Language with Purpose
77
Teachers Try it out
79
Alphabets and Beanie Babies
81
Collecting Letters and Words
82
Literacy as a Hobby
84
Teachers Try it out
87
Final Words
88
Lists and Flowcharts
89
Visual Tools
90
Teachers Try it out
93
Conclusion to Part II
94
Part III Planning Frameworks
97
Chapter 13 Framework 1
99
Mythic Planning Framework
101
A Lesson on Homonyms
106
Chapter 14 Framework 2
113
The Romantic Planning Framework
114
A Lesson on the Comma
120
The Frameworks and You
131
Conclusion
132
Responses to the Teachers Try it out Questions
134
References
158
Index
159
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Kieran Egan is Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, as well as founder and director of the Imaginative Education Research Group (www.ierg.net). He has authored and edited over twenty books, many of which have been translated into European and Asian languages. In 1991, he won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education for his book, Primary Understanding: Education in Early Childhood. Born in Clonmel, Ireland, Kieran Egan was raised and educated in England. He graduated from London University with a B.A. in History, and from Cornell University with a Ph.D. in Education. In 1993, he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He is a foreign associate member of the National Academy of Education and holds a Canada Research Chair in Education.

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