Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies

Changing Times, Changing Literacies

Michèle Anstey and Geoff Bull

This timely resource explains the concept of multiliteracies and provides you with the knowledge, resources, attitudes, and strategies your elementary and middle school students need to succeed in a changing world.

Authors Michèle Anstey and Geoff Bull present a range of new and established ideas about literacy, emphasizing successful practices. Chapters cover how teachers can

Rely less on print texts

Respond to new trends in children’s literature

Balance guided reading, outcomes-based curricula, and schoolwide approaches to planning

New concepts are accompanied by reflection strategies to help you think about your understandings of literacy, multiliteracies, and texts. Plus, all chapters include “Theory Into Practice: Classroom Application” sections that demonstrate how you can incorporate multiliteracies every day in your teaching.

An IRA Book Club selection, September 2006

Customers in Australia and New Zealand: This publication can be purchased through Curriculum Corporation in Melbourne. Visit www1.curriculum.edu.au/catalogue/ for information.

© 2006 | 160 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-586-3
Copublished with the Australian Literacy Educators’ Association

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