Reading the movies: learning through film

Using a wide range of genres including poetry, playscripts, picture-books, performance texts, comics, classics, cinema texts, novels, non-fiction and pupils’ own narratives, this book seeks to show how texts can be used to make literacy exciting and pleasurable in the primary classroom. Drawing on many popular as well as literary texts the contributors write with enthusiasm about opportunities for creative teaching and learning. They also provide many examples of good practice to promote literacy, both inside and outside the Literacy Hour. While Teaching Through Texts includes a discussion of the National Literacy Strategy, it also looks ahead to the new literacies of the future