This thought-provoking book will provide masters students, teachers and researchers with a toolkit and theoretical framework for teaching literacy through children''s literature. It features innovative ideas for developing student and teacher experiences with literature and popular culture texts in the classroom, providing practical examples and teaching aids throughout.
Taking a collaborative approach, Curtin explores how teachers and learners can engage with literature and its authors for the development of literacy in classroom practice. Connecting reader and writer identities and worlds through interviews with and suggested classroom activities from authors themselves, this text combines author, teacher and learner perspectives in the development of creative pedagogies that extend understandings of literacy beyond reading, writing and text.
Exploring fairy-tales, comic books and graphic novels, children living in literature (i.e., texts which portray children, thei
