1. Communicating to Learn: Giving Language Teaching a Content of Its Own
Why Literacy Development?
What Does Literacy Development Offer to Foreign Language Teaching?
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2. The Literacy Approach
Planning
Backward Design
Students' Final Production: Text Types and Modes
The Teaching Points
The Learning Path
The Planning Grid
Outlook
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3. Designing the Learning Path: The Reception Phase
Starting with the Text
Leading Students into the Text
Understanding and Enjoying the Text
Looking at How the Text Means
Putting on the Writers' Glasses: Observing the Text
Working on the Language: Analysing the Text
Organizing the Learning Path with the Help of the Planning Grid
Outlook
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4. Designing the Learning Path: The Production Phase
Ready for Production
Giving Students the Opportunity to Focus
What Guided Production Looks Like
Time for Free Production
Guiding Students Through the Free Production Stage
Assessing Students' Production
Outlook
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5. A Literacy Unit in Primary Education
Becoming Clear About What We Want to Teach
From What I Know to What I Could Not Do Alone-The Learning Path
Outlook
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6. Integrating a Literacy Approach Into an Existing Curriculum
But I Have a Curriculum to Follow...
A Whole School Approach to Literacy Development
Developing an English Curriculum That Feeds into the Content Subjects
Language Teaching as Part of Students' Academic Development
Outlook
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7. Teachers and the Literacy Approach
Just Take Any Step, Whether Small or Large ...
Training the Teachers
Why Literacy, Why Now?
References
Appendix A: Tasks for the Reception Phase of a Unit Based on We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Appendix B: Checklist of Contents for Year 10 in the Curriculum of Advanced English (Comunidad de Madrid, Spain).