Author: David Ian Hanauer
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: discourse, continuum, classroom, multiliteracy, scientific
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-08-10
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0826489591
ISBN-13: 9780826489593

Scientific Discourse examines the nature of scientific inquiry in the primary school classroom to show how this interacts with early literacy. Through an examination of the texts used and produced by pupils studying science the author shows how what is at work in this context of scientific discourse is actually multiliteracy. The teacher aids the pupils’ learning using different forms of literacy spread across the spoken word, written text, visual text and physical action. The result of this diverse approach is a growth not only in scientific knowledge, but basic literacy. The book provi