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Reviews of print articles in publications
related to children's literature, the promotion of reading,
literacy development and the integration of new technologies
into the literature classroom.
Country:
Australia
Author: Jenni Connor
Publication:
Pen 119, Primary English Teaching Association
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference for
Early Childhood to Early Adolescence |
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Jenni Connor outlines the case for using
literature as a means of integrating part of the curriculum
to help improve student learning outcomes. She provides guidance
in designing 'ideas-driven, inquiry-based and world-related'
integrated units on themes such as All Kinds of Loving, Being
Different, Being OK and Books as Political and Social
Criticism.
Units are stimulating and readily adaptable to meet particular
outcomes and Phases of Development. Fiction titles suggested
as springboards for integrated study are relevant and generally
available in school libraries.
Country:
Australia
Author: Hilary Adams
Publication: Classroom magazine, Issue
5/2001
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference for
Early Childhood to Early Adolescence |
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Shows teachers how they can help their students
develop strategies for 'reading' (viewing) the illustrations
to uncover layers of meaning embedded in good picture books.
Adams examines some of ways illustrators convey meanings, values
and attitudes through different artistic techniques. Three recent
picture books are used as examples: Anthony Browne's Voices
in the Park, Fox by Ron Brooks and Margaret Wild
and Memorial by Shaun Tan and Gary Crew.
This concise article is very useful for any primary or secondary
teacher interested in using picture books to help students to
achieve Viewing outcomes and to help them to develop their own,
and their students' aesthetic appreciation of the artwork.
Subscription:
Scholastic Australia
PO Box 579 Lindfield NSW 2070
Phone: (02) 4328 3555; Fax: (02) 4328 2205
$49.00 for yearly subscription of eight issues.
Individual issues $8.65
| Country:
Australia
Author: Dale Gordon
Publication: Literacy Learning: Secondary
Thoughts Vol 7 No 2 1999, Australian Literacy
Educators' Association. p i-viii (insert).
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference
for Early Childhood to Early Adolescence |
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Literacy Learning: Secondary Thoughts
is essential reading for teachers of secondary school English.
The central insert in this edition contains a sound rationale
and practical advice for setting up small group or whole class
reading clubs. Dale Gordon describes the characteristics of
adult reading clubs and emphasises that:
Setting up reading clubs in a class or school is about having
children read as adults read. (p. i)
To establish reading club groups in the
classroom Dale states that it is important to set down clear
expectations for reading group behaviour. Teachers need to:
- Discuss the purpose for reading clubs with
the class
- Demonstrate how to choose a book to read
- Ensure that all students understand how a
reading club group operates
- Establish rules for the reading club group
(included is a sample contract)
- Demonstrate responses to reading
The strategies are easy to implement and
provide useful assistance for teachers looking for ways to motivate
wide-reading and thoughtful responses from their students.
Subscriptions:
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PO Box 3203 Norwood, SA 5067
Ph: (08) 8332 2845 Fax: (08) 8333 0394
Email:
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| Country:
Australia
Author: Susan La Marca
Publication: Access, Vol 14 Issue
3 2000, Australian School Library Association.
p 15-17.
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference
for Early Childhood to Early Adolescence |
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Susan La Marca, part time teacher librarian
at Marcellin College, Melbourne is mid-way through a PhD. She
is the editor of Back
to Books: Creating a Focus on Fiction.
In this short article Susan again reminds us that although the
teacher librarian's time is
increasingly taken
up with the pressures of curriculum change and the need to
move libraries towards efficient users of electronic sources
of information. This should not lead them to ignore, or devalue,
their role in the promotion of reading for pleasure, and the
benefits that can be gained from improved literacy skills,
within the school community.
Susan takes Aidan Chambers' concept of the
creation of a reading environment and adapts it to highlight
the fundamental role of the teacher librarian, especially in
the secondary school situation. She argues that while the creation
of any reading environment is effected by a multitude of factors
from budget constraints to support from the school administration
and the architecture of the library, the attitude and beliefs
of the teacher librarian are paramount.
Subscription to Access is included
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Otherwise, enquiries may be directed
to:
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Email: asla@asla.org.au
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Rates for non-members: $53.00 within
Australia. $A60.00 overseas
Country:
Australia
Publication: Practically
Primary, Vol 4 No. 2 June 1999, Australian
Literacy Educators' Association
Phase of
Development: Teacher Reference for Early Childhood
to Early Adolescence |
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Practically Primary is
a classroom-oriented journal for primary teachers. Each issue
focuses on a current topic and includes articles by practising
teachers, reviews and resources.
This edition contains a useful and interesting mix of theoretical
and practical articles concerning reading. The first article
is a thought-provoking introduction to the model developed by
Peter Freebody and Allan Luke. They maintain that learning to
read is a 'multi-dimensional and constructive activity'.
Other articles include:
- The Role of phonics in Early Literacy
by Lynne Carter and Jenny Proctor
- With Reluctant readers, Try Horror
by Edel Wignell
- Individual Literature by Robyn Perkins
- Magic Between the Covers by Paul Jennings
Subscriptions:
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PO Box 3203 Norwood, SA 5067
Ph: (08) 8332 2845 Fax: (08) 8333 0394
Email:
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| Country:
Australia
Author: James Moloney
Publication: Magpies Volume 14 No
1 March 1999, p 10-12.
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference
for Early Childhood to Late Adolescence |
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In this fascinating article, James Moloney
acclaimed author of children's and young adult fiction and teacher
librarian with fifteen year's experience in a boys' school,
explores the perennial question of Why don't boys read?
He rejects current theories arguing that the problem is that
many boys do not regard reading as a masculine activity.
What we need are models of
masculine behaviour that do not link literacy with the feminine
and which embrace books and reading as an accepted and vital
part of being a man.
....No longer should we focus solely on the boys. Change the
men and you will change the boys.
This is thought-provoking reading for librarians,
teachers and parents of boys.
| Country:
Australia
Author: Kevin Steinberger
Publication: The Literature Base,
Volume 12 Issue 2, May 2001, p 4-9.
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference
for Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence |
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If you want to improve your own visual literacy
or help your students achieve Viewing outcomes there is a very
useful article written by Kevin Steinberger in The
Literature Base.
Kevin explores a number of Tohby Riddle's picture books including
The Singing Hat, The Tip at the End of the Street
and The Great Escape From City Zoo. He explains some
of the mechanics of visual communication such as use of colour,
perspective, angle, space, line and intertextuality, an understanding
of which helps the viewer to appreciate the layers of meaning
embedded in the visual text.
Country:
Australia
Author: Rita Blackburn, Department
of Education,WA
Publication: Fiction
Focus, Volume 15 No. 1 2001, p 8-21
Phase of Development: Teacher Reference for
Early Adolescence |
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This article provides a rationale for
using picture books in the secondary classroom to help students
achieve English Learning Outcomes, particularly in the Viewing
mode and to develop students' critical thinking skills. A learning
and teaching strategy employed by Lesley Reece at the Fremantle
Children's Literature Centre is explained and suggestions on
how to use a number of recent picture books are given. Also
provided is an extensive annotated bibliography which includes
picture books, websites and professional reading.
Go to an extract from this article which
includes a learning strategy, teacher resources, websites, workshop
and a bibliography of picture books.
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