Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14

<p>English teachers are always keen to explore new ways of motivating their pupils to engage with reading both for learning and for pleasure. <i>Literacy Activities for Classic and Contemporary Texts 7-14</i> 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. </p><p>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. </p><p>Classic authors and texts covered by this book include:-</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Aesop’s fables Greek myths and legends;<i> </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Beowulf Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Oscar Wilde;</li> <p> </p> <li>Shakespeare (The Tempest Twelfth Night Hamlet A Midsummer Night’s Dream);<i> </i> </li> <p> </p> <li>Charlotte Bronte Charles Dickens George Eliot Robert Louis Stevenson Mary Shelley;</li> <p> </p> <li>Andrew Norriss Frank Cottrell Boyce Nina Bawden<i> </i>Michelle Magorian and much more... </li> </ul><p>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. </p><p>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.</p>