Literacy moves on : popular culture, new technologies, and critical literacy in the elementary classroom / edited by Janet Evans.

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Published: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2005.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Anne Haas Dyson
  • Introduction : the changing nature of literacy in the twenty-first century / Janet Evans
  • 1. Multimodal texts : what they are and how children use them / Eve Bearne
  • 2. Moving stories : digital editing in the nursery / Jackie Marsh
  • 3. Children reading and interpreting stories in print, film, and computer games / Margaret Mackey
  • 4. The dagger of doom and the mighty handbag : exploring identity in children's on-screen writing / Guy Merchant
  • 5. Creating opportunities for critical literacy with young children : using everyday issues and everyday text / Vivian Vasquez
  • 6. Beanie Babies : an opportunity to promote literacy development or a money-spinner for the business tycoons? / Janet Evans
  • 7. Children reread and rewrite their local neighborhoods : critical literacies and identity work / Barbara Comber and Helen Nixon
  • 8. Curiosity kits : linking reading and play in the middle years / Ros Fisher
  • 9. Writing of heroes and villains : fusing children's knowledge about popular fantasy texts with school-based literacy requirements / Elaine Millard
  • 10. Getting it right for children : making meaningful connections between culture, community, and school / Dominic Scott.