Social Worlds of Children: Learning to Write in an Urban Primary SchoolTeachers College Press, 1993 - 263 pages Presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. |
Contents
FRAMING CHILD TEXTS WITH CHILD WORLDS Ways of Studying Language Literacy and Diversity | 1 |
THE OFFICIAL CLASSROOM WORLD A Permeable Curriculum | 22 |
UNOFFICIAL CLASSROOM WORLDS Children Taking Action Through Language | 44 |
THE CASE STUDY CHILDREN Social Actors and Literacy Users | 70 |
JAMEEL Staking a Claim on the Official Literacy Curriculum | 100 |
JAMEEL Claims Inroads and Emerging Crossroads | 125 |
LAMAR AND EUGENIE From Textual Crossroads to Curricular Side Roads | 147 |
AYESHA AND WILLIAM The Politics of Composing in the Third Grade | 181 |
COMPOSING THE CLASSROOM NEIGHBORHOOD | 207 |
APPENDICES | 223 |
Other editions - View all
Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School Anne Haas Dyson Limited preview - 1993 |
Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School Anne Haas Dyson No preview available - 1993 |
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