Beyond the Grammar Wars: A Resource for Teachers & Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/Literacy Classroom Book

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: "Grammar Wars" and beyond

2. Terry Locke

   Part I: The "Grammar Wars" in context

3. Blowin’ in the wind: English grammar in United States schools.

4. Martha Kolln and Craig Hancock

5. The problematics of prescribing grammatical knowledge: The case in England

6. Urszula Clark

7. The Grammar Wars in Australia

8. Frances Christie

9. Knowledge about language in the English classroom: A Scottish perspective

10. Graeme Trousdale

    Part II: The effectiveness of grammar teaching: The research record

11. Teaching sentence-level grammar for writing: The evidence so far

12. Richard Andrews

13. Explicit teaching of grammar: Does it help students to become better writers?

14. Amos van Gelderen

15. Ways of knowing: Writing with grammar in mind

16. Debra Myhill

    Part III: Into the classroom: Integrating knowledge about language with learning

17. "Language as a system of meaning potential": The reading and design of verbal texts

18. Hilary Janks

19. Discovering a metalanguage for all seasons: Bringing literary language in from the cold

20. Terry Locke

21. Scaffolding grammar instruction for writers and writing

22. Constance Weaver

23. Primary school children learning grammar: Rethinking the possibilities

24. Ruth French

    Section IV: Beyond print: A metalanguage for multimodal texts

25. A grammar for meaning-making

26. Gunther Kress

27. Schemas for meaning-making and multimodal texts

28. Anne Cloonan, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope

29. Resourcing multimodal literacy pedagogy: Towards a description of the meaning-making resources of language-image interaction

30. Len Unsworth

31. Rules of grammar, rules of play: Computer games, literacy, and literature

Andrew Burn

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