Create a writing classroom that is creative, innovative and imaginativeWriting Right with Text Types helps current and future teachers inspire young writers in exciting and engaging ways. Chapters 1 to 4 explore the critical components of language and writing, including grammar, setting up your classroom for writing, modelling writing to your students, and assessment. Chapters 5 to 13 discuss the common genres taught in primary school and the text types found within these genres. In these chapters, theory is brought to life through numerous teaching ideas and case studies. The final chapter explores recent developments in classrooms and children’s literature; it encourages reflection on how we teach writing to children and how we might do so in the future.
Key FeaturesIncludes actual examples of children’s writing from a variety of primary grade levels. These writing samples help show what children are capable of as writers and to not only explore what they do well, but to discover ways that they could improve and develop their writing further.
Introduces a plethora of titles from children’s literature and these titles can be used as models of text types and genres. These include examples of multilevel and multimodal texts, graphic novels, comics, and picture books etc to showcase how these different types of texts can be used to extend and cross over between genres and text types. Features websites and current apps throughout, in particular in the ‘In the classroom’ boxes. These provide further resources that might spark an interest for your young writers. These technology resources and the children’s literature titles are listed at the end of each chapter, for quick reference.
Encourages reader to reflect on their learning with ‘Stop and think’ questions and then practice by developing their own lessons with the ‘Now it’s your turn’ feature.
By:
Matthew Zbaracki
Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 247mm,
Width: 192mm,
Spine: 17mm
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9780195527919
ISBN 10: 0195527917
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 October 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1: IntroductionTeaching writingChildren's vocabulary developmentThe writing processGenres and text typesIntroducing the genre chaptersUsing children's literature to motivate young writersConclusion 2: GrammarIntroductionTraditional grammar: Knowing the parts of speech and what they doTraditional grammar versus functional grammarTeaching grammar meaningfullyConclusion 3: Getting ReadyIntroductionSpace to writeTime to writeInspiration to writeTools for writingFreedom to writeConclusion 4: AssessmentIntroductionAssessment for learningAssessment of learningAssessment as learningRubricsAssessment in this bookConclusion 5: HumourIntroductionIncongruity: The basis of humourIn depth: A short narrativeConclusion 6: NarrativesIntroductionStructuring and planning narrativesLanguage and grammar features of narrativesIn depth: A short narrativeConclusion 7: RecountsIntroductionStructuring and planning narrativesLanguage and grammar features of narrativesIn depth: A short narrativeConclusion 8: PersuasiveIntroductionStructuring and planning persuasive textsLanguage and grammar features of persuasive textsIn depth: Letters and advertisementsConclusion 9: Information ReportsIntroductionStructuring and planning information reportsLanguage and grammar features of information reportsIn depth: Book and news reportsConclusion 10: Procedural TextsIntroductionStructuring and planning procedural textsLanguage and grammar features of procedural textsIn depth: RecipesConclusion 11: ExplanationIntroductionStructures, language features, and planningIn depth: Explanation reportsThe importance of visualsConclusion 12: TransactionalIntroductionStructures, language features, and planningIn depth: Technology correspondenceConclusion 13: PoetryIntroductionLanguage and grammar features of poetryStructureIn depth: Key forms and types of poetryConclusion 14: Future GazingIntroduction: Technology and multimodalityBlended narratives and blended genresMultimodality, technology, and blended narratives in this bookPushing the boundariesConclusion
Matthew Zbaracki is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Arts at the Australian Catholic University.
