A guide to scriptwriting. It uses step-by-step processes illustrated with diagrams and charts to lend a visual structure to the teaching. It contains interviews with British writers and directors as well as a handy series of legal contracts, video clips and writing exercises.

This text aims to help all those involved with children and their learning through poem-writing. Beginning with an introduction outlining the importance of poetry, the work discusses poetry in terms of children's learning and the imagination.

Brings together a range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in educational policy and politics. With an emphasis on pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the respected authors in the field.

This book analyses how picture books work - the role of picture books in learning to read, how children make meaning from pictures, and how teachers can make best use of picture books in the classroom.

This book aims to extend the educational literacy of student teachers. It will enable them to deconstruct policy, research and media texts and place them within historical, social and literary contexts.

This text aims to synthesize the state of research with regard to the teaching and testing of reading in a second language. It examines the psychology of reading, models of the reading process and various theories, and discusses the development of reading tests and teaching practice.