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Authors: Geoff Dean
ISBN-13: 9781853467479, ISBN-10: 1853467472
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: Geoff Dean

Book Synopsis

This revised and updated edition takes into account the greater recognition of language users in schools and the working parties which have been set up to enable the more able to enjoy opportunities to display and develop their special talents. This new edition also explores models of language learning and offers some strands of linguistic development on which teachers of English/literacy can build more specific developmental intentions.

This book will help teachers recognize, challenge and support children who show advanced skills in reading and writing so that they can enable them to achieve their full potential. Through exploring effective ways in which pupils can be assisted to develop linguistically, teachers will be better prepared for planning appropriately differentiated activities for these pupils. Areas covered include methods of challenging and improving able readers and writers, and learning from alternative text sources.

The book will be particularly helpful to language coordinators in primary schools, heads of English departments and teachers of English in secondary schools. It will also be of interest to parents of able language users.

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Dean (General Adviser for English, Cambridgeshire LEA) describes how to identify more able language users, how to challenge and improve their reading and writing skills, ways that schools can accommodate such students, and non-reading activities involving video texts, radio, and information technology. An appendix provides two models of reading lists. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
1The Problem1
2Identifying More Able Language Users15
3What the School Can Do: Preparation, Policy, Resources and Parents24
4What the School Can Do: A View of Language Learning and Progression32
5How to Challenge and Improve the Reading of More Able Readers50
6How to Challenge and Improve the Writing of More Able Writers93
7More Able Language Users Learning from Texts other than Books129
AppReading List Models134
Bibliography140
Index143

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