English Teaching: Practice and Critique
Fantales: The tale of an English teacher in search of an idea or How information technology found a real place in my classroom
Greta Caruso (Kingswood College, Melbourne, Australia)
This narrative provides an account of one teacher's use of a
minimal, real-world text — a Fantale lollie wrapper — in her classroom as a means of motivating Year 7 students
to write concisely and imaginatively. It discusses the success of this
strategy and the way in which information technology was utilised in
the production of facsimile texts. Examples of student work are
provided.