Margaret Meek

Aidan Warlow

Griselda Barton

A collection of 50 essays by authors and critics from the world of children's literature who all share a common concern for children's literacy needs and growth. Dealing with a range of perspectives, The Cool Web is divided into five sections linked by the editors' critical commentary, but the whole is an invitation to the reader to make his own synthesis and to take up the study of reading and stories where it concerns him or her most.

The Pattern of Children's Reading

The Cool Web

Margaret Meek Spencer

The changes in our society in the patterns of behaviour, the varieties of culture and language, and the shifting emphasis on the roles of the sexes, have had a dramatic effect on what is going on in schools and classrooms everywhere. At the same time, parents, who have always been responsible for the early education of their children are now urged to take an active role in their schooling, they are inevitably confused by the unfamiliarity of the current school scence. At the heart of it all is their concern about literacy; children learning to read and write in a society which seems increasingly to be dominated by electronic media.

On Being Literate

How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery. This book is a fascinating and informative research report by a group of teachers who set out to teach children who have failed to acquire a useful degree of literacy; in it they discuss their experiences. The authors are presenting evidence about a central and constant problem in education, an essential kind of evidence which is often ignored, because it is so difficult to collect and present. The report presents enough case-notes and recordings of lessons and discussions to allow readers to make their own interpretations alongside those of the writers. Highly informative about many of the central topics of teaching literacy it discusses children's motivation, the influence of social and cultural background on learning, and different methods of teaching reading.

Longitudinal Studies of Adolescents Learning to Read

Achieving Literacy

How Texts Teach what Readers Learn

How children learn to read well and what kind of teaching helps them is a scarcely penetrated mystery. This book is a fascinating and informative research report by a group of teachers who set out to teach children who have failed to acquire a useful degree of literacy; in it they discuss their experiences. The authors are presenting evidence about a central and constant problem in education, an essential kind of evidence which is often ignored, because it is so difficult to collect and present. The report presents enough case-notes and recordings of lessons and discussions to allow readers to make their own interpretations alongside those of the writers. Highly informative about many of the central topics of teaching literacy it discusses children’s motivation, the influence of social and cultural background on learning, and different methods of teaching reading.

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