Children Reading Print and Television Narrative

Muriel Robinson spent ten years teaching in Inner London primary schools before moving to the University of Brighton to work in initial and inservice teacher education. Her current teaching includes English and media studies, and she is researching the structure and cultural significance of house music as a language form. She is an avid consumer of narratives of all kinds.

• List of Transcription Symbols -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Everyday Discourses about Children, Television and Reading -- Chapter 2 -- How Do We Read? -- Chapter 3 -- Language. Thought, Culture and Narrative -- Chapter 4 -- Making Sense of the Text in the World -- Chapter 5 -- The Expectations Children Have when Reading -- Chapter 6 -- Personal Response to the Texts -- Chapter 7 -- The Text as a Source of Meaning -- Chapter 8 -- Using Information from Outside the Text -- Chapter 9 -- Children Reading Print and Television -- Bibliography -- Appendix — List of Transcripts -- Index.