ABSTRACT
This book offers practical advice and guidance on how children can be helped to use language to transform knowledge and experience into understanding across the curriculum, and thus become active learners. In addition to the core subjects, opportunities in music, P.E., I.T. and design technology are examined in the context of the interrelationship between children, language and learning, i.e.:
* children learning to use language
* children using language to learn
* children learning about language
Chapters describe classroom practice as well as offering reflective sections on the interrelationships and processes of language and cognitive development. An integral part of this is the acknowledgement of differing learning styles, special educational needs, and issues of linguistic diversity and cultural difference.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Part 1|44 pages
Language and Learning
chapter 1|16 pages
‘Why do we Have to Write it Down?'
part Part 2|54 pages
Getting Ideas Going
chapter 5|17 pages
Who's Asking the Questions?
part Part 3|42 pages
Looking Closely at Language
part Part 4|52 pages
Narrative Across the Curriculum
chapter 12|16 pages
‘Don't Look out of the Window, You'll Only Have to Write About it!'
part Part 5|40 pages
The Language of Reflection and Evaluation
part Part 6|42 pages
A Common Approach to Language Development