The purpose of this study is to examine how the teaching of non-fiction texts looks like in grade 3 in three different classes and how the students in these classes are being prepared for the subsample that tests the ability to write a non-fiction text in the national test in Swedish and Swedish as a second language. I have, based on the purpose, issued three question that form the basis of this study. They are: What tasks does the students in these classes implement in Swedish lessons dealing with non-fiction? What models are used in Swedish teaching in these three classes dealing with non-fiction? How are the students being prepared for the subsample that tests the ability to write a non-fiction text in the national test in Swedish and Swedish as a second language? The methods used to carry out this study are observation and interview. The purpose of using these methods are to gain knowledge and to be able to explain a social phenomenon, in this case how the teaching of non-fiction texts looks like in grade 3. The theoretical concepts that are relevant for the implementation of this study are the writing discourses of Genre and Process. The result is that all of the teachers that featured in this study prepared their student for the national test in Swedish by implementing similar tasks in their teaching, which the students face in the national test. The students read non-fiction texts, selected relevant words from the texts and wrote their own non-fiction text during the lessons I observed. I detected two separate models used in the teaching, which are Genre pedagogy and Process writing. None of the teachers in this study used the models fully, but used some parts of them in their teaching.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:sh-29255 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Peters, Sofia |
| Publisher | Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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