On the go (reading book)
On the way is a series of reading books for German lessons from Ernst Klett Verlag for grades 5 to 10. The first edition took place in 1994. In 2004 the series was fundamentally revised and reissued. The volume is mostly 240 pages per volume, only the volume for grade 10 is shorter with 216 (old edition) or 224 pages (new edition).
Editing, editing and selection of the contained texts was carried out by Elke Bleier-Staudt, Katrin Bothe, Günter Lange, Jörg Ulrich Meyer-Bothling, Herbert Schnierle-Lutz, Karin Schröer, Eike Thürmann and Günter Waldmann. The design and text illustrations of the series are by Uwe Häntsch .
structure
Text part
The original conception of the Unterwegs series consisted of a text and a project part per volume. The text part Topics and Texts includes short stories illustrated by Häntsch, book excerpts and poems on predefined key topics that make up the individual sections or chapters of the text part.
The focus of the text part is shifting with increasing grade level from the purely entertaining fantasy - adventure and (especially in the poems and descriptions of nature) a stimulating to pause and self-reflection aesthetically contemplative expression of inner moods, feelings and impressions committed idyllic literature that the The aim is to stimulate the students' fundamental reading interest, increasingly on social, societal and political topics such as friendship, civil courage , modern life (including dealing with technology, city life, the world of work, media skills ), war and peace, environmental protection and foreign cultures.
Key themes of the text part
The main themes or chapters of the individual volumes on the basis of which the texts were selected:
On the go 5
- dream
- Girls and boys
- Rogues, fools and rare birds
- Animals and people
- Seasons, times of day
- Children elsewhere
- On the trail of the Romans
- On the sea of fantasy
On the move 6
- I - identity
- Society - living together - us
- values and standards
- Nature - environment - technology - work
- distant countries
- Past times
- Fantastic - cross-border
On the go 7
- I'm me
- Living together
- Nature and man
- Brazil, a strange world
- Heroes?
- Close encounters
On the move 8
- Do I love you ...
- Belonging, being outside
- Resist
- Man and technology
- Encounter with strange worlds
- Witch madness
- The alien planet
On the move 9
- Grow up
- Live together
- Is that right?
- City experiences
- Departure into the unknown
- Youth under the swastika
- Nothing is impossible
On the way 10
- In search of yourself
- Difficult relationships
- war and peace
- Feel nature
- Foreign experiences
- Border crossings
- Visions of the future
Lessons and projects
The following, fundamentally different and often in the form of colorful picture and text collages, part of the teaching units and projects includes work and project materials to promote writing, reading and basic media skills (including formal and factual criticism of text, style and content, creative work and design of own materials and media) of the students.
Revision from 2004
The revision of the series that took place in 2004 served on the one hand to introduce the New Spelling , on the other hand, the project part in particular was fundamentally revised, modernized and placed at the beginning. In addition, there was a part of information introduced after the text part , which contains, among other things, explanations of terms as well as learning and project templates and for which the actual text part has been shortened.
In addition, the cover design , which was originally partly marbled and based on fiction novels, was revised in favor of a more sober design of the cover; the numbers in the individual volumes are no longer based on the respective grade level (5 to 10), but now run from 1 to 5.
Web links
- On the way : Information pages from Ernst Klett Verlag on the reading book series, including conception, all individual volumes, as well as old (1994) and new (2004) editions