Playing with texts: The contribution of children's knowledge of computer narratives to their story-writing

Popular Literacies, Childhood and Schooling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 72-92

  Bearne, Eve ^a   Wolstencroft, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Essex LEA ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84917116043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203015551     Document Type: Chapter

References (19)

1. Bearne, E. (1996) ‘Myth and Legend: the oldest language?’, in Styles, M., Bearne, E. and Watson, V. After Alice: exploring children’s literature. London: Cassell, pp. 143-52.
2. Bearne, E. (2000) ‘Myth, legend, culture and morality’, in Bearne, E. and Watson, V. Where Texts and Children Meet. London: Routledge, pp. 183-97.
3. Beavis, C. (2000) ‘Computer games as class readers: Developing literacy skills for the twenty first century’, The English and Media Magazine, 41, Spring.
4. Beavis, C. (2001) ‘Digital culture, digital literacies: Expanding the notions of text’, in Beavis, C. and Durrant, C. (eds) P(ICT)ures of English: Teachers, learners and technology. Wakefield Press, Adelaide, pp. 145-61.
5. Burn, A. (forthcoming) ‘Potter-Literacy - from book to game and back again; literature, film, game and cross-media literacy’, in Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, 14(3).
6. Douglas, J.Y. and Hargadon, A. (2001) ‘The Pleasures of Immersion and Engagement: Schemas, Scripts, and the Fifth Business’, Digital Creativity, 12(3): 153-66, cited in Mackey (2004).
7. Facer, K., Furlong, J., Furlong, R. and Sutherland, R. (2003) ScreenPlay: Children and Computing in the Home. London: RoutledgeFalmer.
8. Gee, J.P. (2003) What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
9. Goldthwaite, J. (1996) The Natural History of Make-Believe. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. Kress, G. (1997) Before Writing: rethinking the paths to literacy. London: Routledge.
11. Mackey, M. (2004) ‘Children reading and interpreting stories in print, films and computer games’, in Evans op. cit. pp. 48-58.
12. Mark, J. (1994) ‘The Patrick Hardy Lecture’ in Signal, No 75 J. Stroud, Glos: Thimble Press, pp. 19-36.
13. Marsh, J. and Millard, E. (2003) Literacy and Popular Culture in the Classroom. Reading: National Centre for Language and Literacy, The University of Reading.
14. McClay, J. (2002) ‘Hidden “Treasure”: New Genres, New Media and the Teaching of Writing’, English in Education, 36(1): 46-55.
15. Millard, E. (2003) ‘Towards a literacy of fusion: new times, new teaching and learning?’, Reading literacy and language, 37(1): 3-8.
16. Moll, L., Amanti, C., Neff, D. and Gonzalez, N. (1992) ‘Funds of Knowledge for Teaching: Using a Qualitative Approach to Connect Homes and Classrooms’, Theory into Practice, 31(2): 132-41.
17. Propp, V. (1958 first translation) Morphology of the Folktale. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
18. Smidt, S. (2003) ‘Six fingers with feeling: play, literacy and politics’, in Bearne, E., Dombey, H. and Grainger, T. (eds) Classroom Interactions in Literacy. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
19. Whitley, D. (2000) ‘Fantasy narratives and growing up’, in Bearne. E. and Watson, V. Where Texts and Children Meet. London: Routledge, pp. 172-82.