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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Fiction
chapter Chapter 3|11 pages
Fiction in the classroom
chapter Chapter 5|28 pages
Traditional tales
chapter Chapter 8|7 pages
Animal stories
chapter Chapter 16|10 pages
Poems playing with language
chapter Chapter 17|6 pages
Poems with distinctive forms, rhythms and/or rhyming patterns
chapter Chapter 18|11 pages
Story or narrative poems, classic poems and poems from different cultures and traditions
chapter Chapter 19|10 pages
Poems with freer, less traditional forms and patterns
part II|2 pages
Non-fiction