Teaching Literacy : Engaging the Imagination

This unique approach to teaching core literacy skills offers step-by-step planning frameworks and an appendix of activity ideas to show teachers how to engage students in the process.

Preface

vi

Acknowledgments

xi

About the Author

xii

PART I: THE COGNITIVE TOOL KIT OF ORAL LANGUAGE

1

(58)

Using the Story Form: Meeting Objectives by Engaging Feelings

3

(13)

Stories and Feelings

4

(2)

Stories in the Classroom

6

(5)

Inventing Comic Characters

11

(1)

Personifying Elements of Language

12

(1)

Creating a Literacy Adventure

12

(2)

Teachers, Try It Out

14

(1)

Final Words

14

(2)

Images We Care About: Too, Two, and To

16

(10)

Images Aid Memory and Understanding

17

(2)

Tying Concepts to Images

19

(3)

From Images to Letter Representation

22

(3)

Teachers, Try It Out

25

(1)

Final Words

25

(1)

Binary Opposites: Goldilocks and Civil War

26

(7)

Using Opposites to Expand Upon Understanding

27

(2)

Mediating Binary Opposites

29

(2)

Teachers, Try It Out

31

(1)

Final Words

32

(1)

Literal and Metaphoric Talk: ``Like a Spring-Woken Tree''

33

(6)

Recognizing and Reflecting on Language

34

(1)

Similes

34

(2)

Metaphors

36

(1)

Teachers, Try It Out

37

(1)

Final Words

37

(2)

Jokes: Drawing the Drapes

39

(5)

Joking and ``Seeing'' Language

40

(2)

Humor in Amelia Bedelia

42

(1)

Reading Puzzles

42

(1)

Teachers, Try It Out

43

(1)

Final Words

43

(1)

Rhyme and Rhythm: Mickey Mouse's Underwear

44

(7)

Echo Rhymes

45

(1)

Rhyme and Rhythm: Ring, Rang, Rung

46

(1)

Nursery Rhymes

47

(2)

Teachers, Try It Out

49

(1)

Final Words

50

(1)

Living Knowledge: Barbie and The Matrix

51

(8)

Embedding Knowledge in Students' Lifeworlds

53

(2)

Children's Lifeworlds

55

(4)

Conclusion to Part I

57

(2)

PART II: THE COGNITIVE TOOL KIT OF LITERACY

59

(38)

Extremes: The Queueing Subbookkeeper

61

(7)

The Strange, Exotic, Different, and Wonderful

61

(1)

Fascinating Reality

62

(1)

Metalinguistic Awareness

63

(1)

Exploring Extremes

64

(1)

Wonder in the Classroom

65

(2)

Teachers, Try It Out

67

(1)

Final Words

67

(1)

Everyday Heroes: Spiderman and the Comma

68

(7)

Heroizing Literacy Tasks

69

(1)

Heroes in the Classroom

69

(3)

Heroic Experiences

72

(1)

Teachers, Try It Out

73

(1)

Final Words

74

(1)

Human Contexts: John Montagu, The Earl of Sandwich

75

(6)

Knowledge in a Meaningful Context

76

(1)

Linking Language With Purpose

77

(2)

Teachers, Try It Out

79

(1)

Final Words

79

(2)

Collections and Hobbies: Alphabets and Beanie Babies

81

(8)

Collecting Letters and Words

82

(2)

Literacy as a Hobby

84

(3)

Teachers, Try It Out

87

(1)

Final Words

88

(1)

Graphic Organizers: Lists and Flowcharts

89

(8)

From the Ear to the Eye

89

(1)

Visual Tools

90

(3)

Teachers, Try It Out

93

(1)

Final Words

93

(4)

Conclusion to Part II

94

(3)

PART III: PLANNING FRAMEWORKS

97

(35)

Framework 1

99

(14)

Mythic Planning Framework

101

(5)

Example: A Lesson on Homonyms

106

(7)

Framework 2

113

(19)

The Romantic Planning Framework

114

(6)

Example: A Lesson on the Comma

120

(11)

The Frameworks and You

131

(1)

Conclusion

132

(2)

Appendix: Responses to the ``Teachers, Try It Out'' Questions

134

(24)

Gillian C. Judson

References

158

(1)

Index

159

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