The 21 stories told in this collection are about successful classroom teaching in South Australian primary schools and show the invaluable role that teachers play in developing sound theory. Each story has been selected from the English Language Curriculum Services Newsletter (ELCS) or its successor English Language Arts Newsletter (ELAN), which have been published over the last 9 years by the Education Department of South Australia. The book is divided into three sections entitled "Setting Up Children for Success,""Learning from Children," and "Supporting Student Independence," and the stories they contain reflect the multiple roles that teachers play in the development of children. The teachers whose stories are included have been particularly open to all they learn from children, testing out their hunches and responding to what they observe children doing. Their stories are a testament to the complexity, challenge, and satisfaction of teaching. (MG)
The new edition of this bestselling text employs standard grammatical terminology, but it also uses terms which allow for a more functional interpretation. Aligned with the new Australian Curriculum: English, this edition is organised around the main functions that language plays in our lives: interacting with others, structuring coherent texts and expressing and developing ideas. Another major difference is that the content now extends into secondary schooling, dealing with the language challenges faced by older students.
Identity texts are oral or written texts that reveal some aspects of a students own life and experiences. They have been used successfully to support the development of language and personal story, identity texts lead to greater student engagement and better learning outcomes. (Back cover)
This book was designed to supply information on available resources in Australian children's literature and a tradition of teaching which incorporates the Australian experience in an inclusive manner. Essays and their authors consist of the following: (1) "Children's Books in Australia: Two Hundred Years of Social Life" (Maurice Saxby); (2) "One of the Family" (Anne Hazel); (3) "Access to Australia's Past" (Colleen O'Sullivan); (4) "Performing Australian Poetry" (Sean Monahan); (5) "Conducting an Author Study" (Victoria Roberts and Vivienne Nicoll); (6) "Aboriginal Stories: Reliving the Experience" (Fran Murray); (7) "Tuning In to the Spirit of Place" (Lyn Linning); (8) "Death of the Spaghetti Dance" (Mary Mathias and Janet Oxwell); (9) "Rural Australia--Urban Australia" (Joan Zahnleiter); (10) "Outside-Inside Playground Rhymes" (Moira Robinson); (11) "Great Races and Challenges (Susan Hill and others); and (12) "Australia--Where Are We Going?" (Marie Luxford and Maureen Ferry). (MS)
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