ABSTRACT

Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is a guide for primary teachers to the many kinds of texts children encounter, use and enjoy in their nursery and primary school years, providing an invaluable insight into the literature available. Addressing important issues and allowing for the voices of teachers, reviewers and children to be heard, it contains suggestions of best practice which offer a more creative approach to learning.

Including both fiction and non-fiction, with genres ranging from picturebooks to biographies, this fully updated second edition features:

  • New coverage on recent books
  • Discussion of new changes in concepts of literacy, particularly focused on technological advances in moving image media and virtual worlds
  • The balance between print and screen-based texts on developing children’s visual and multimodal literacy
  • Annotated booklists for each genre for different age groups
  • New sections on equality, diversity and translation

Exploring fiction, non-fiction and poetry, Choosing and Using Fiction and Non-Fiction 3-11 is an invaluable resource, supporting teachers as they help children on their journey to becoming insightful and critical readers of non-fiction, and sensitive and reflective readers of fiction.

part I|2 pages

Fiction

chapter Chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction to Part I

chapter Chapter 2|5 pages

Children’s literature

Some key strands

chapter Chapter 3|11 pages

Fiction in the classroom

Resources, organization of teaching and learning, some issues and assessment and record keeping

chapter Chapter 4|24 pages

Picturebooks

chapter Chapter 5|28 pages

Traditional tales

Folk and fairy tales; myths, creation stories and legends; parables and fables

chapter Chapter 7|4 pages

Longer stories and children’s novels

An introduction

chapter Chapter 8|7 pages

Animal stories

Animal autobiographies, talking animals and stories based on close observation of living creatures

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

Realism

Domestic, adventure and school stories

chapter Chapter 10|6 pages

Historical fiction

Historical novels, time-slips and war stories

chapter Chapter 11|11 pages

Fantasy stories and novels

chapter Chapter 12|22 pages

Reading in a wider world

chapter Chapter 14|20 pages

Playscripts

chapter Chapter 15|10 pages

Poetry

An introduction

chapter Chapter 16|10 pages

Poems playing with language

Nursery rhymes and action rhymes, nonsense verse and limericks, riddles and proverbs and rhyming stories

chapter Chapter 17|6 pages

Poems with distinctive forms, rhythms and/or rhyming patterns

Rhyming poems, haiku, cinquain, kenning, tanka, shape poems, thin poems and acrostics

chapter Chapter 19|10 pages

Poems with freer, less traditional forms and patterns

Free verse, conversation poems, blank verse and rap

part II|2 pages

Non-fiction

chapter Chapter 20|4 pages

Introduction to Part II

chapter Chapter 25|3 pages

Introducing chronological text types

Recount and instruction

chapter Chapter 26|24 pages

Recounts

Young researchers read and write chronologically ordered accounts

chapter Chapter 27|13 pages

Instruction texts

chapter Chapter 28|5 pages

Introducing non-narrative non-fiction texts

Report, explanation, discussion and persuasion and reference

chapter Chapter 29|16 pages

Report texts

Choosing texts and resources

chapter Chapter 30|8 pages

Explanation texts

Choosing texts and resources

chapter Chapter 32|16 pages

Argument

Discussion and persuasion texts

chapter Chapter 33|22 pages

Reference texts

Choosing texts and resources

chapter Chapter 35|1 pages

Conclusion to Part II