Text Next: New Resources for Literacy Learning

Healy, Annah (ed.); Honan, Eileen (ed.)

ISBN 10: 1875622578 / ISBN 13: 9781875622573

Published by Primary Education Teaching Association (PETA), Newtown, N.S.W., Australia, 2004

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136 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-254mm).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Text Next: New Resources for Literacy Learning
• Publisher: Primary Education Teaching Association (PETA), Newtown, N.S.W., Australia
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1875622578
• ISBN 13: 9781875622573
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education, Teaching Methods & Child Development

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Synopsis

This book is written for teachers and student teachers and anyone interested in literacy education. The ‘four resources model’, proposed by Freebody and Luke, provides the framework and context for the chapters. The model identifies the resources used by a literate person when approaching texts — those of a code breaker, text participant, text analyst, and text user. The contributors illustrate how to develop and draw on these resources through case studies and classroom examples. Each demonstrates the inter-relationship of the resources during literate activity — whether as print, verbal or multimedia text.’ Rather than a prescriptive set of activities, this book offers teachers a platform of ideas upon which t build, drawing on their own experiences and those of their students within the context of individual classroom practice. All the chapters and case studies have been written by experienced teachers and academics, who share their insights into the world of learning and literacy development.

Dr Annah Healy is a senior lecturer in the School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology. Her research centres on multiliteracies, critical literacy, and reading pedagogy. She is involved in consulting to educators across university, school and curriculum advisory sites across Australia.

Dr Eileen Honan is a lecturer in the School of Social and Cultural Studies, Faculty of Education, at Deakin University. She teaches language and literacy education in pre-service and postgraduate programs. Her current research interests include continuing to work with teachers as they map their literacy teaching practices, creating closer links between theories and practices of classroom literacy teachers, and the introduction of vernacular education in Papua New Guinea.