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Making curriculum links with homes and communities

8 References

  • Cazden, C. (2001) Classroom Discourse. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.(especially chapters 4, 6 and 7)
  • Cook, M.A. (2005)  ‘A Place of Their Own’: creating a classroom ‘third space’ to support a continuum of text construction between home and school.  Literacy, 39,2,  pp. 85-90
  • Department for Education and Skills (2004) Children Act 2004.  London:  HMSO
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  • Marsh, J. (2003) One way traffic? Connections between literacy practices at home and in the nursery.   British Educational Research Journal  29,3, pp. 369-382
  • Marsh, J. and Millard, E. (2000) Literacy and Popular Culture: Using children’s culture in the classroom. London: Paul Chapman
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  • Pahl, K. and Rowsell, J. (2005) Literacy and Education London: Paul Chapman Publishing (especially chapters1 and 3 but the whole book is a good, accessible introduction to the area)
  • Paratore, J. (2003) in B. Krol-Sinclair. and A. DeBruin -Parecki (Eds.)  Family Literacy from Theory to Practice. Delaware: International Reading Association
  • Vygotsky, L.S.(1978) Mind in Society.  Cambridge, Mass:   Harvard University Press (especially chapter 6)

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Contents

  1. Introduction and Rationale
    1. Introduction
    2. Rationale
  2. Core Principles about Language and Learning
  3. Key Issues
    1. Key Issues in Language and Learning
    2. Key Issues in Assessment and Evaluation
    3. Key Issues in Management
  4. Suiting Links to Purposes
  5. Links to Inform Parents and the Community
    1. Overview of Informing Links
    2. What Student Teachers might do to Inform Parents
  6. Links to Support Parents
    1. Overview of Supporting Links
    2. What Student Teachers might do to Support Parents
    3. Case Study (i): Supporting parental awareness of curriculum and methodology
    4. Developing parents’ own abilities through Family Learning courses
  7. Links to Make the Curriculum Reflective of Home and Community
    1. Overview of Reflective Links
    2. What Student Teachers might do to Make the Curriculum Reflective of Home and Community
    3. Case Study (ii): Reconstructing a community scenario
    4. Case Study (iii): Using texts from the community culture
  8. References
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