Academic literacies in the middle years : a framework for enhancing teacher knowledge and student achievement /
Framework for enhancing teacher knowledge and student achievement
Sally Humphrey.
- x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Context of Middle Years Literacy Research -- Design and Foundations of a Metalanguage Framework -- Designing Literacy interventions -- Exploring Narratives as Prose and Drama Script -- Writing Responses to Analyse Cultural Works -- Factorial Explanations in History, Science and the Social Sciences -- Persuading Audiences in the Academic Domain -- Persuasion for Civic Purposes -- Towards Design Principles for Middle Years Literacies -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"The professional learning framework this book presents is designed to support teachers’ understandings of how language functions in their academic disciplines. This framework—a 4 x 4 metalinguistic toolkit—is informed by systemic functional linguistic theory and international educational research on academic and disciplinary literacies." --Publisher's website.