Beyond the grammar wars : a resource for teachers and students on developing language knowledge in the English/literacy classroom / edited by Terry Locke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction: "Grammar Wars" and beyond / Terry Locke -- Part I. The "Grammar Wars" in context -- 2. Blowin' in the wind: English grammar in United States schools / Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock -- 3. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England / Urszula Clark -- 4. The Grammar Wars in Australia / Frances Christie -- 5. Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective / Graeme Trousdale -- Part II. The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record -- 6. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far / Richard Andrews -- 7. Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers? / Amos van Gelderen -- 8. Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind / Debra Myhill -- Part III. Into the classroom: Integrating knowledge about language with learning -- 9. "Language as a system of meaning potential": The reading and design of verbal texts / Hilary Janks -- 10. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold / Terry Locke -- 11. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing / Constance Weaver -- 12. Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities / Ruth French -- Section IV. Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts -- 13. A grammar for meaning-making / Gunther Kress -- 14. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts / Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope -- 15. Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction / Len Unsworth -- 16. Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature / Andrew Burn.

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