Inside the Literacy Hour: Learning from Classroom Experiences

Fisher, Ros (Author)

ISBN 10: 0415256720 / ISBN 13: 9780415256728

Published by Routledge, 2002

About this Item

1st edition. 190 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inside the Literacy Hour: Learning from Classroom Experiences
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415256720
• ISBN 13: 9780415256728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

About this title

Synopsis

The National Literacy Strategy is at the heart of the government drive to raise the standards in literacy in schools. Based on a research project conducted in classrooms during the first year of the National Literacy Strategy (NLS), this book provides a practical analysis of the ways in which successful teachers have implemented the Literacy Hour. Taking a reflective approach, it chronicles how teachers have changed their attitudes and practice over the first year, and questions why these changes have occurred. With various descriptions of teachers' practice and examples of children's writing throughout, this is an in-depth, yet down-to-earth reflective analysis of effective literacy teaching. Ros Fisher looks in detail at issues such as; improving the teaching of literacy; researching classroom practice; children's learning in the Literacy Hour; changing practice at Key Stage One and Two and mixed age classes and literacy for four-year-olds.

About the Author

Ros Fisher taught in primary schools before moving to the Rolle School of Education, the University of Plymouth, where she is currently Reader in Literacy Education.