Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies: Changing Times, Changing Literacies - Softcover

Anstey, Michele; Bull, Geoff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0872075869 ISBN 13: 9780872075863

Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn, 2006

Synopsis

This timely resource explains the concept of multiliteracies and provides you with the knowledge, resources, attitudes, and strategies your elementary and middle school students need to succeed in a changing world.

Authors Michèle Anstey and Geoff Bull present a range of new and established ideas about literacy, emphasizing successful practices. Chapters cover how teachers can

Rely less on print texts
Respond to new trends in children's literature
Balance guided reading, outcomes-based curricula, and schoolwide approaches to planning
New concepts are accompanied by reflection strategies to help you think about your understandings of literacy, multiliteracies, and texts. Plus, all chapters include ''Theory Into Practice: Classroom Application'' sections that demonstrate how you can incorporate multiliteracies every day in your teaching.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Intl Literacy Assn
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0872075869
• ISBN 13: 9780872075863
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160