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Abstract
The chapter outlines how creative, engaging pedagogies can be used to develop students' knowledge about the way grammatical choices help construct meaning in literary texts. The provided teaching strategies draw on systemic functional grammar elements of ergativity (who is acting? who is speaking? Who has power?) to explore the the storyline, characterisation and cohesion in the picture story book Luke's Way of Looking (Wheatley & Ottley).
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Conversations about text |
Subtitle of host publication | Teaching grammar using literary texts |
Editors | Joanne Rossbridge, Kathleen Rushton |
Place of Publication | Newtown |
Publisher | Primary English Teachers Association (e:lit) |
Chapter | 8 |
Pages | 79-93 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781875622801 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 |
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Poetry, Literacy and confirming student identity
Janet Dutton (Speaker) & Kathy Rushton (Speaker)
31 May 2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Creativity, Identity and Literacy
Janet Dutton (Speaker) & Kathy Rushton (Speaker)
30 Nov 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation
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Challenging the dominant culture by developing a creative pedagogy in subject English: Building students' cultural capital and linguistic and cultural resources
Janet Dutton (Speaker) & Kathy Rushton (Speaker)
5 Dec 2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Presentation