Today, children's literature engages young readers not only with favorite books, but also through an explosion of multi-media digital storytelling on CD-ROM, the internet, and via myriad complex computer game narratives. So how can children's experiences of digital literature be channeled into more enjoyable and challenging classroom literary learning experiences? "E-Literature for Children" will help practicing teachers and students of teacher education to understand the differences and similarities of the literary experience for children through classic, contemporary and innovative...
Today, children's literature engages young readers not only with favorite books, but also through an explosion of multi-media digital storytelling on ...
As ICT continues to grow as a key resource in the classroom, this book helps students and teachers to get the best out of e-literature, with practical ideas for work schemes for children at all levels.
Len Unsworth draws together functional analyses of language and images and applies them to real-life classroom learning environments, developing pupils understanding of text . The main themes include:
What kinds of literary narratives can be accessed electronically?
How can language, pictures, sound and hypertext be analysed to highlight the story?
How...
As ICT continues to grow as a key resource in the classroom, this book helps students and teachers to get the best out of e-literature, with practi...
In an age where the use of electronic media is expanding and the nature of traditional texts and text-based learning is changing, new literacies are becoming increasingly important in the school classroom. This volume examines how new literacies can be used in the English curriculum, and presents a series of research-based studies applied to every level of school-age education. The chapters examine: early literacy; picture books; the internet; secondary school English; and the problems of assessment in the new literacy age.
This forward-thinking volume will be of interest to...
In an age where the use of electronic media is expanding and the nature of traditional texts and text-based learning is changing, new literacies ar...
This volume presents an overview of new developments and applications of social semiotic theory. Pioneered by M.A.K. Halliday, social semiotic theory sees meaning as created through the interaction of texts (including writing, images, sound and space) within a given context. Divided into five sections, the contributors use social semiotic theory to analyse a range of contexts, including the classroom, the museum and cinema. The case studies show the range and scope of this method of analysis, and include: the school curriculum; literacy; print media; online resources; film; and...
This volume presents an overview of new developments and applications of social semiotic theory. Pioneered by M.A.K. Halliday, social semiotic theo...
Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verbal text. This book offers new descriptions of the visual strand of meaning in picture book narratives as a way of furthering the project of 'multimodal' discourse analysis and of explaining the literacy demands and apprenticing techniques of children's earliest literature. Reading Visual Narratives uses the principles of systemic-functional theory to organise an explicit account of visual meaning in relation to three perspectives: the visual...
Contemporary children's picture books provide a rich domain for developing theory and analysis of visual meaning and its relation to accompanying verb...
This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics, the book envisions a 'functional grammatics' relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study, rhetoric and multimodality. It re-imagines the possibilities of grammar for school English through Halliday's notion of grammatics.
Functional Grammatics is founded on decades of research inspired by systemic functional linguistics, and includes studies of grammatical...
This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Draw...
This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Drawing on resources in systemic functional linguistics, the book envisions a 'functional grammatics' relevant to disciplinary domains such as literary study, rhetoric and multimodality. It re-imagines the possibilities of grammar for school English through Halliday's notion of grammatics.
Functional Grammatics is founded on decades of research inspired by systemic functional linguistics, and includes studies of grammatical...
This book provides a re-conceptualization of grammar in a period of change in the communication landscape and widening disciplinary knowledge. Draw...
