Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Language Experience Approach

Just Imagine is an exciting, unique and versatile resource that provides teachers with practical and stimulating creative writing activities for fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Taking three different, but interconnected media by which to generate and explore creative writing Text and Themes, Images and Music the book/CD offers inspiration for a wide range of creative writing workshops.

The books is organised into three sections:

• Texts and themes: 8 theme-based sections that use a variety of texts, interview clips and discussion points to...

Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its goal not the mere gathering of information but the deeper understanding that only good books can offer.

Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and...

Providing practical guidance on enhancing learning through ICT in English, this book is made up of a series of projects that supplement, augment and extend the QCA ICT scheme and provide much-needed links with Units in other subjects schemes of work. It includes:

• fact cards that support each project and clearly outline its benefits in relation to teaching and learning
• examples of how activities work in 'real' classrooms
• links to research, inspection evidence and background reading to support each project
• adaptable planning examples and practical ideas...

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives variously from critical social theory and cultural studies, poststructuralism and feminisms, sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication, social history and comparative education, the contributors begin a critical interrogation of taken-for-granted assumptions which have guided educational...