Multiple Worlds of Child Writers : Friends Learning to Write

Dyson, Anne Haas, Williams, Leslie R.

ISBN 10: 080772971X / ISBN 13: 9780807729717

Editore: Teachers College Press, 1990

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 2915626-6

Riassunto:

Based on a two-year study of first graders at a magnet school in the San Francisco Bay Area, Multiple Worlds of Child Writers: Friends Learning to Write provides an important missing link in the study of emergent literacy: the peer group and the classroom contexts that surround it. Using four richly detailed case studies, the author portrays the process through which Margaret, the teacher, and her children form a community, one supported by and supporting of the children’s growth as writers.

Dyson offers new perspectives by displaying the quality of life in the classroom through children’s talk, drawings, and writing. The theoretical framework presented here for understanding children’s growth moves what is usually considered background to the foreground for study. Most works on children’s writing stress that children must “disembed” or “decontextualize” their written texts from dependency on other symbolic media and other people. Dyson, however, shows that to develop as writers, children’s text must become progressively more embedded in the social, affective, and intellectual parts of their lives. The book also emphasizes the nature of the classroom rather than the home as a distinctive context for early literacy growth. Moreover, the classroom is an urban one that includes children from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds. The classroom and children whose lives fill this book challenge current thinking about such critical issues as the developmental links between writing and other symbol systems, sequence and variability in early writing growth, the relationship between form and function in young children’s writing, and the development of literary language.

This book is a must for early childhood educators, reading and language arts specialists, and scholars/researchers in the field of literacy.

Product Description: Book by Anne Haas Dyson

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Titolo: Multiple Worlds of Child Writers : Friends ...
Casa editrice: Teachers College Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1990
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good
Edizione: New Ed.