For several hundred years critics have been complaining about standards of punctuation. Despite this concern, how people learn to understand punctuation is one of the most neglected topics in the field of literacy. Although there are numerous handbooks detailing the rules of the punctuation system, there have been very few studies about how punctuation is understood by learners. This timely book is the first ever to address the issues associated with how people, and especially children, make sense of punctuation. The first chapter offers a detailed overview of some of the major issues. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 the authors offer accounts of how children develop understanding of punctuation. Chapter 5 deals with teachers' experiences of, attitudes towards, and beliefs about the teaching and learning of punctuation. Chapter 6 contains a detailed analysis of one lesson in which punctuation was the main feature and explores its consequences for the children's use of punctuation in their writing. In Chapter 7 the author examines how a deaf child learned to punctuate and raises important issues about the relationship between oral language and punctuation. Chapter 8 contains a rare account of how young children use punctuation when reading. Finally, Chapter 9 offers an account of the problems of adult basic writers; difficulties which have a strong relationship with those faced by young writers.

LEARNING ABOUT PUNCTUATION (The Language and Education Library, 9)

Reference

Robinson, Anne

Hall, Nigel

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

Keeping in Touch draws on the editors' many years of experience in introducing interactive writing to teachers and students. Through accessible case studies, it offers lively and fascinating insights into the numerous ways in which this exciting activity can facilitate children's writing skills. Interactive writing provides children with enjoyable reasons for authorship and aids their transition from oral to written communication.

KEEPING IN TOUCH: USING INTERACTIVE WRITING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Good teachers are always looking for ways to help beginning readers and writers to understand what literacy is, how it works, who uses it, and what it is used for. Children who understand the nature and purpose of literacy are going to find learning to read and write a more satisfying, engaging and purposeful activity. One very rich source of ideas about literacy is those books, postcards and posters which feature illustrations of people engaging in the activity of reading and writing. In this book, the authors have gathered together information abourt such images, examined the nature of the demonstrations within them and considered a large range of ideas for developing activities based on the messages in the images. This fully illustrated book is a very practical aid to teachers of three- to eight-year-old children who want to extend their pupils' knowledge about the nature of reading and writing.

LOOKING AT LITERACY: USING IMAGES OF LITERACY TO EXPLORE THE WORLD OF READING AND WRITING

Full-colour preparation material for the 2007 updated Cambridge Young Learners English Tests. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at these levels. This Teacher's Book includes creative teaching tips, photocopiable activities, and a full, photocopiable practice test.

Fun for Starters Teacher's Book

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Cambridge University Press

Full-colour preparation material for the 2007 updated Cambridge Young Learners English Tests. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at these levels.

Fun for Movers Student's Book

Fun for Flyers Student's Book

Fun for Flyers Teacher's Book

Full-colour preparation material for the 2007 updated Cambridge Young Learners English Tests. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at these levels.

Fun for Flyers Audio CDs

Fun for Movers Student's Book provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Movers. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at this level. An Audio CD, available separately, includes listening material to accompany the Student's Book. A Teacher's Book is also available. The website to accompany the series includes interactive versions of some activities from the Student's Books.

Saxby, Karen

Cambridge English

Fun for Flyers Student's Book provides full-colour preparation material for the Cambridge Young Learners English Test: Flyers. Fun activities balanced with exam-style questions practise all the areas of the syllabus in a communicative way. The material is specifically designed to focus on those areas most likely to cause problems for young learners at this level. The Audio CDs, available separately, include listening material to accompany the Student's Book. The website to accompany the Fun for Starters, Movers, Flyers series includes interactive versions of some activities from the Student's Books.

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LEARNING ABOUT PUNCTUATION (The Language and Education Library, 9)

KEEPING IN TOUCH: USING INTERACTIVE WRITING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN

LOOKING AT LITERACY: USING IMAGES OF LITERACY TO EXPLORE THE WORLD OF READING AND WRITING

Fun for Starters Teacher's Book

Fun for Movers Student's Book

Fun for Flyers Student's Book

Fun for Flyers Teacher's Book

Fun for Flyers Audio CDs

Fun for Movers Student's Book

Fun for Flyers Student's Book