Ages 9-18
Leap Into Literacy: Teaching The Tough Stuff So It Sticks!
Kathleen Gould Lundy
This sensible, invigorating book offers lesson plans and practical suggestions for stimulating active learning and creating learning opportunities in new ways. It directs teachers to simple methods of inspiring a questioning attitude that will help classes master skills, acquire information, and become critically aware of their own possibilities as learners. The book shows teachers how to encourage students to:
- grapple with problems that interest them and share new understandings
- read and share texts orally with others
- represent their new understanding in drama and movement, visual arts, and electronic media
- share leadership in groups as they talk through ideas
- engage in ideas that force them to rethink what they know
- reframe their understanding about how the world works
- reflect on how, what, why and when they are learning
Featuring a wealth of proven strategies and techniques—from role-playing, moving expressively, and working with art, to cooperative drama games, tableaux, poetry cafes, and interpreting text as Readers Theatre.
Leap Into Literacy advocates a classroom environment where learning is about more than acquiring information. It argues that even in a crowded curriculum, teachers can capitalise on ‘teachable moments’ and find active and inclusive ways to reach more of their students as they create happier and more exciting classroom communities, while at the same time giving teachers a revitalised view of everyday teaching.
Contents
Introduction; Lay the Groundwork; Greet the Group; Scan Your Plan; Make Words Sing; Stage the Page; Mine for Meaning; Inside Images; Immersed in Role; Transcripts, Objects, and Artefacts-Constructing Understanding; Take Time to Integrate; Final Words: One Eye on Reality, Another on Possibility; Appendix; Recommended Resources; Index
2007 128pp
978-155138-212-8
£24.99
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