Australian Journal of Language and Literacy articles from August 1997

Australian Journal of Language and Literacy archives from August 1997

Rethinking the achievement of the student writer.
August 1, 1997... Despite over 90 years of research into the means of devising and implementing testing procedures and scoring rubrics, the assessment of student writing remains problematic (White, 1990; Rothery & Macken, 1991; Cox & Haynes, 1991; Freebody,...

Rock-a-byes and spells, recipes and stories: an examination of reading instruction in the initial school years.
August 1, 1997... Why a focus upon intertextuality in early grade classrooms? Teacher mediation between children and written texts during lessons such as shared book experience is an established practice in the initial school years. This mediation means that...

New genres and new literacies: the challenge of the virtual curriculum.
August 1, 1997... This article considers the impact on language and literacy education of new cyber-genres such as email and Web pages, as well as on the curriculum genres generated by the interaction of schools with the Internet. It is argued that the...

Literacy and the language of science in Year 1 classrooms: implications for children's learning.
August 1, 1997... In this article the authors report on the findings of a study which explores certain linguistic features in the discourse of two Year 1 teachers and their students. The study focusses on the teachers' use of grammatical metaphor, which is...

The Excuse.
August 1, 1997... Baille, A. (1997). Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books Australia. Teacher Mr Scarsdale has the reputation of believing most of the excuses he is given by his class. The students think he is gullible, but is he really? When Pete is 57 minutes late...

Snap.
August 1, 1997... Clark, M. (1997). Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books Australia. Margaret Clark's book is another in the `Aussie Bites' series. Patrick, the protagonist, is given an old Polaroid camera for his birthday. He's at an age where he wants to make some...

Brain Drain.
August 1, 1997... Clark, M. (1997). Sydney: Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The prolific Margaret Clark has a finger in many pies this year. Here she contributes to another Australian series `Shivers', which is aimed at those at...

Walk Twenty, Run Twenty.
August 1, 1997... Disher, G. (1996). Sydney: Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. This is a powerful story that involves the reader in a variety of emotional situations. Some of the situations are physically dangerous and adventurous for...

Wicked.
August 1, 1997... Gleitzman, M. and Jennings, P. (1997). Ringwood, Victoria: Puffin Books. Those children who are already familiar with Paul Jennings' and Morris Gleitzman's work will not need an introduction to this exciting serial -- they will want to get on...

Flour Babies.
August 1, 1997... Fine, A. (1992). Harmondsworth, UK: Puffin Books. The fact that this book is a winner of the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and was chosen by children as `The pick of the year' for the Federation of Children's Book Groups raises our...

The Newspaper Kids: Pegleg Paddy's Puppy Factory.
August 1, 1997... Phillips, J. (1997). Sydney, Australia: Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. The Newspaper Kids are a group of four who are responsible for the production of the monthly newspaper Street Wise. In this, the third title of...

The Real Adventure of Johnny Quest: The Forbidden City of Luxor.
August 1, 1997... Quentin B. (1996). New York, USA: Harper Prism, an imprint of Harper Paperbacks. The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is a series for readers with an affinity for Indiana Jones and characters like him who face unbelievable situations and events...

Hatty's Hotline.
August 1, 1997... Simons, M. (1997). Ringwood, Victoria: Puffin Books. Hatty is a budding journalist who takes on the role of the person teenagers turn to with their problems. No question is too difficult for `Hatty's Hotline'. Through this section of the local...

Color Me Criminal: A Carmen Sandiego Mystery.
August 1, 1997... Weiss, E. and Friedman, M. (1997). New York, USA: Harper Trophy, a division of HarperCollins Publishers. A book about the computer program `Carmen Sandiego' piques the interest. Why read a novel when you could play the game? Those who are...

Conducting Tracer Studies in Adult Language and Literacy Programs.
August 1, 1997... Barbara Chapman and Sue Fisher Teacher Resource Series 6 The National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University 1995, 63 pp., $26.95 As the title suggests, this text describes the steps involved in conducting a...

From a Distance.
August 1, 1997... Wenche Ommundsen and Hazel Rowley (eds) Deakin University Press 1996, 201 pp., $27.95 From a Distance is an intriguing book of essays that explores the notion of physical and cultural distance of Australian writers from the days of the early...

Teaching Decoding in Holistic Classrooms.
August 1, 1997... J. Lloyd Eldredge Merill, Prentice Hall, USA 1995, 224pp., $41.95 J. Lloyd Eldredge's Teaching Decoding in Holistic Classrooms successfully presents an approach to reading that incorporates the best empirical-based strategies from both the...

The Computing Practices of Language and Literacy Teachers.
August 1, 1997... Chris Corbel Research Report Series 8 The National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research, Macquarie University 1996, 79 pp., $26.95 If you think you have some prejudices about using computers in education then this report will...