Children's literature for literacy

"This research-based book is intended as a 'companion' or reference to enhance pre-service and practising teachers' knowledge about how literature is created. Offering practical insights, it supports teachers' understanding of the writer's craft related to the quality literary texts they read with their students."

Gives pre-service teachers of elementary, early childhood, and special education students a comprehensive look at children's literature in general plus information about hundreds of today's best books in children's literature. The book is organized around genres and includes teaching strategies, technology applications, authoritative coverage of multicultural literature, and many instructional tie-ins.

"The shape of text to come is designed to engage educators with both image and word both effectively and intellectually. It seeks to provide a way for teachers to understand how images work in their own right, as well as in relation to written text. By presenting key concepts around multimodal texts and the role of visual language this book will guide readers through a framework that will enhance their understanding of visual grammar as well as build on concepts of written grammar."

Literacy: Reading, Writing and Children's Literature, Fifth Edition is most comprehensive text in English Education for pre-service teachers. It covers the whole literacy curriculum: reading, writing, speaking, listening and viewing and illustrates how pre-service teachers can use theory intheir classrooms. This accessible text is rich with practical examples, classroom scenarios, and revision questions help readers to put theory into practice. Teaching examples highlight effective assessment practices and it demonstrates how to teach to a range of learning abilities from beginning through toaccomplished.

Analyzes children's books that showcase positive examples of the literary elements, formats, and genres that are the focus in the field of children's literature. Aimed at future teachers, practising teachers and parents.

A collection of essays drawing upon a range of critical theories related to children's literature, including performativity and performance; linguistics; gender studies; literary studies; semiotics and art criticism; postcolonial theory; queer theory and film aesthetics.

This collection critically examines postmodern picturebooks and reflects upon their contribution to children's literature and the development of new literacies for child, adolescent, and adult readers.

A collection of essays examining how contemporary debates about masculinity are reflected in fiction and film for young adults. A team of scholars elucidates the ways in which different versions of male identity are constructed and presented to young audiences.

A comprehensive collection of scholarly essays exploring the effects, use, and implications of narrative in children's literature from an international cast of contributing scholars

Through a variety of critical perspectives, the author uncovers the essential differences between story ('what we are told') and discourse ('how we are told'), and carefully distinguishes between how these are employed in children's fiction and in general fiction.