Conversations About Text 1: Teaching Grammar, Literary Texts

Conversations About Text 1: Teaching Grammar, Literary Texts

By Joanne Rossbridge and Kathy Rushton

Knowledge about grammar is knowledge about the building blocks of language. Conversations About Text 1: Teaching Grammar using Literary Texts focuses on teaching grammar in the context of literary texts in the primary school and middle years. Common issues are addressed, specifically in the area of teaching grammar and how these relate to both learning to use language and learning about language. Throughout the book, classroom practitioners share their strategies, programs and units of work that demonstrate how to work with literary texts.

Key features

  • Focuses on the teaching of grammar through using quality literary texts, supporting teachers to make grammar meaningful and contextualised.
  • Addresses common issues in the teaching of grammar, providing practical strategies and examples of how to teach grammar.
  • Its companion text, Conversations about Text 2 complements this book, to provide teachers strategies to teach grammar across all kinds of quality texts.

Sample chapter

Sample Chapter (.pdf 553 KB)

Intended audience

  • Pre-service teachers
  • Early career educators
  • Classroom teachers
  • Literacy leaders
  • Curriculum, Instructional and Pedagogy leaders

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