eBook - Teaching with Intent 2: Literature-based Literacy Teaching and Learning

eBook - Teaching with Intent 2: Literature-based Literacy Teaching and Learning

A powerful, literature-based approach to teaching language and literacy—designed to support struggling readers and writers through explicit, scaffolded strategies and rich classroom examples.

By Dr Bronwyn Parkin and Dr Helen Harper

WINNER — Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2020 Primary: Reference Resource category


Now, more than ever, we need to be inclusive of all students: we need to draw in those students at risk of being relegated to the margins of classrooms and of learning. And we need to do this in a way that is authentic to ourselves as teachers, communicating our joy of literature, of reading, writing and telling stories.’

With many students falling behind their peers, struggling to decode and draw inferential meanings from text, Teaching with Intent 2 describes a highly effective approach to teaching language and literacy that’s anchored in storytelling. Parkin and Harper developed their version of this literature-based program over years of professional practice in the classroom with marginalised students. It involves a sequence of pedagogic strategies that allow teachers to carefully build their students' knowledge about text, language, reading and writing — thoroughly explained in this book, with practical guidance to help you apply the ideas successfully in your own classroom.

Why purchase this book?

  • This book centres literature at the heart of teaching language and literacy, presenting the approach in a series of integrated strategies that are focused on an engaging, age-appropriate text.
  • The featured approach is appropriate for use with all students, but it especially targets students who would otherwise struggle to make sense of a text and feel unsure about where to begin with a piece of writing.
  • The book is grounded in scaffolding, the gradual release of responsibility model, explicit teaching, systemic functional linguistics and the Vygotskian theory of sociocultural learning.
  • Numerous classroom examples are provided throughout the text, including student work samples, transcripts of teacher/student dialogue, and close textual analysis of the two featured texts, Big rain coming by Katrina Germein and Bronwyn Bancroft, and a short story, Nails by Paul Jennings.

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Intended audience

  • Classroom teachers
  • Literacy Leaders
  • Curriculum and Instructional Leaders
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