Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14

The Whoosh Book

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Secondary Education, Elementary
Cover of the book Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones ISBN: 9781134963577
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: September 17, 2016
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
ISBN: 9781134963577
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: September 17, 2016
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading, both for learning and for pleasure. Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 is a practical, friendly book which uses the ‘whoosh’ to cover some of our best known classic and contemporary texts and offers a thoroughly enjoyable way for pupils to become part of the story, rather than just passive recipients of it. As an innovative and active learning strategy, the whoosh technique allows all students, regardless of gender, age, ability, learning need or command of language, to partake on an equal footing.

For younger pupils, the activities in this book provide an ideal way to internalise structure and key elements in story telling through physical response. For older students, they provide an enjoyable way to engage with challenging texts as well as facilitating the analysis of themes, issues, characterisation and setting. Students themselves become the story as its characters, sounds and even objects – once they are familiar with whooshing, many students will want to write and produce a whoosh of their own.

Classic authors and texts covered by this book include:-

  • Aesop’s fables, Greek myths and legends;
  • Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Oscar Wilde;
  • Shakespeare (The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream);
  • Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley;
  • Andrew Norriss , Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nina Bawden*,* Michelle Magorian and much more...

You can use a whoosh to introduce a new text, to examine conflict, dilemma, plot, setting or characterisation, whoosh a controversial section of text to provoke discussion, or overcome reluctance to engage with archaic language by whooshing key sections of a story. Discussion starters, lesson objectives and follow-up activities are included throughout the text alongside the whooshes, and scripts enabling pupils to deliver dialogue are provided on the book’s eResource.

This book is an invaluable resource, providing whooshes across a wide range of genres to meet the learning needs of children from 7 to 14, for both practising primary and lower secondary teachers.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading, both for learning and for pleasure. Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14 is a practical, friendly book which uses the ‘whoosh’ to cover some of our best known classic and contemporary texts and offers a thoroughly enjoyable way for pupils to become part of the story, rather than just passive recipients of it. As an innovative and active learning strategy, the whoosh technique allows all students, regardless of gender, age, ability, learning need or command of language, to partake on an equal footing.

For younger pupils, the activities in this book provide an ideal way to internalise structure and key elements in story telling through physical response. For older students, they provide an enjoyable way to engage with challenging texts as well as facilitating the analysis of themes, issues, characterisation and setting. Students themselves become the story as its characters, sounds and even objects – once they are familiar with whooshing, many students will want to write and produce a whoosh of their own.

Classic authors and texts covered by this book include:-

You can use a whoosh to introduce a new text, to examine conflict, dilemma, plot, setting or characterisation, whoosh a controversial section of text to provoke discussion, or overcome reluctance to engage with archaic language by whooshing key sections of a story. Discussion starters, lesson objectives and follow-up activities are included throughout the text alongside the whooshes, and scripts enabling pupils to deliver dialogue are provided on the book’s eResource.

This book is an invaluable resource, providing whooshes across a wide range of genres to meet the learning needs of children from 7 to 14, for both practising primary and lower secondary teachers.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book The Paranormal and Popular Culture by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book An Introduction to Disability Studies by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Skype: Bodies, Screens, Space by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Creative ICT by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book 500 Tips for TESOL Teachers by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Personal Safety for Health Care Workers by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Defining Visual Rhetorics by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Resources, Governance and Civil Conflict by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Passion by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book The Narrative of the Good Death by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Imitation (Routledge Revivals) by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book The Politics of Population by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Nation-Building and Personality Cult in Turkmenistan by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
Cover of the book Public Administration and Law by Gill Robins, Laura-Jane Evans-Jones
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy