ABSTRACT
If we want to see what lessons have been learned from the texts children read, we have to look for them in what they write. Of course they draw on the whole of their culture if we let them. We have to be alert what comes from books as well as from life. (Meek, 1988, p. 3)
The Influence of Film on Narrative Understanding
In the previous chapter I looked at the range of print narratives available to young readers in the middle years of school. In this chapter, the discussion is extended to encompass a wider range of narrative forms that can be shown to shape pupils’ perception of how stories are told and written and use this to analyse their versions of written narratives, tracing these influences and their effects. First, I want to look in more detail at particularly potent forms of narration.
