Local Literacies: Theory and Practice

Statement of Responsibility:
Waters, Glenys
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Authors:
Waters, Glenys
Date:
1998
Publisher:
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Publisher Place:
Dallas
Extent:
xii, 425 pages
Publication Status:
Published
Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements

  1. How Learning Takes Place

    2. 1.1 How children learn
    1.2 Informal learning styles
    1.3 Formal learning styles
    1.4 Encouraging purposeful learning
    1.5 Helping students construct meanings effectively
    1.6 Two case studies on learning
    1.7 Strategies for building a good learning environment

  2. The Learning Context

    3. 2.1 The learner
    2.2 The facilitator or teacher
    2.3 The context
    2.4 The learning task

  3. Planning a Literacy Programme

    4. 3.1 Determining the needs
    3.2 Designing a literacy programme: Some factors to consider
    3.3 A typical programme
    3.4 Literacy for adults
    3.5 Literacy for children
    3.6 Literacy for youth
    3.7 Transfer materials

  4. Reading

    5. 4.1 The reading debate
    4.2 Ways of teaching reading
    4.3 What is reading?
    4.4 How do people learn to read?

  5. Reading Readiness

    6. 5.1 Reading readiness activities
    5.2 A skills-based approach to reading readiness

  6. Principles of Primer Construction

    7. 6.1 Look at the sound system of the target language
    6.2 Consider principles from reading research and experience
    6.3 Choose a method and design a layout
    6.4 The primer as part of the reading lesson
    6.5 The primer as part of the literacy programme

  7. Phonics, Syllable, Word, and Sentence Approaches

    8. 7.1 Phonics approach
    7.2 Syllable approach
    7.3 Word and sentence approaches

  8. Whole Language Approaches

    9. 8.1 What is the whole language approach?
    8.2 Shared reading
    8.3 Literature-based reading programmes for Papua New Guinea
    8.4 Big Books for sharing enjoyable reading experiences
    8.5 Whole language approach case studies
    8.6 Language experience approach
    8.7 Implementing a whole language programme

  9. Integrated Approaches

    10. 9.1 Eclectic methods
    9.2 Interactive whole language
    9.3 Teaching language development using themes
    9.4 Samples of activities for primer lessons

  10. Assessment of a Literacy Programme

    11. 10.1 Assessment of programmes
    10.2 Assessment of materials
    10.3 Assessment of students’ reading
    10.4 How to do case studies
    10.5 Involving students in assessment

  11. Materials Production

    12. 11.1 Writers’ workshops
    11.2 Writing good stories
    11.3 Materials production workshops
    11.4 Puffing books together

  12. Teaching Writing

    13. 12.1 Formation of letters
    12.2 The process of writing
    12.3 The reading-writing connection

  13. Mathematics

    14. 13.1 School mathematics versus “real” mathematics
    13.2 Working with numbers
    13.3 Telling the time
    13.4 Practice problems using money

  14. What Is Literacy?

    15. 14.1 The many definitions of literacy
    14.2 Literacy within the culture
    14.3 The literacy system

References
Index

Content Language:
English [eng]
Field:
Academic Training
Literacy and Education
Work Type:
Book
Subject:
Education
Field manuals
Literacy
Literacy methods
Nature of Work:
Text
Entry Number:
5154