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.
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