By fostering an emotional engagement with literature, teachers can encourage children to make subsequent critical evaluations. Ways into Literature is in line with current guidelines and will help practitioners get started straight away by using the book's storylines, character maps, and story frames. It will also help practitioners learn from the experiences of real children and fellow practitioners. Ways into Literature contains photocopiable and CD ROM resources.

Authored by Grove, Nicola

Chapter 1 CHAPTER 1 Literature in our lives; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 Language, emotions and response to literature; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Adapting stories, plays and poetry; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 Literature in the classroom: from principles to practice; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Getting started with creative writing, Tina Detheridge, Olivia O'Sullivan, Nicola Grove; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 Developing storytellers; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 A framework for evaluating students' responses to literature; APPENDIX 1 Examples of poetry styles; APPENDIX 2 Principles of a translation into graphic symbols and signs, Tina Detheridge, Nicola Grove; APPENDIX 3 Teaching resources; APPENDIX 4 Example of story analysis; Bibliography;