The Literate Classroom

Updated to introduce topics within the context of the renewed Primary Strategy, this edited collection provides sound advice and practical suggestions about teaching literacy. It includes:

• New material on developing literacy through creativity
• Advice on how ICT can be used to extend and support literacy teaching
• Guidance on literacy teaching with bilingual pupils
• Original material on shared reading and writing.

Presenting a range of refreshing and challenging viewpoints, the contributors describe how the theory behind key areas of literacy teaching can be transformed into realistic learning experiences in the classroom.