Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader - Developing metalinguistic awareness - Anne Plummer
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Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader - Developing metalinguistic awareness - Anne Plummer
Anne Plummer [+]
After working for Australian State and Federal governments in environmental protection and social policy, Anne Plummer changed direction to qualify as a teacher with the Association Montessori Internationale. She has worked extensively with children in primary classrooms and individually. Her research interests include Montessori grammatics, children’s literature, and the ontogenesis of literary reading.
Description
Considers literary reading as a playful, interactive process, learned in collaboration with more experienced readers and pursued in dialogue with the text itself. Introduces the concepts of intertextuality and polyphony. Notes that the first books children encounter are likely to be picturebooks: multimodal texts which require readers to negotiate two different sense-making systems: words and images.