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The Making of a Reader. Language and Learning for Human Service Professions Monograph Series.
Cochran-Smith, Marilyn – 1984
A study of the ways adults socialize children into particular patterns of literacy by helping them develop the literary and social knowledge necessary for using and understanding print is described in this monograph. Specifically, the monograph focuses on adults and children observed over a period of 18 months at a preschool, and provides insights…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Models, Nursery Schools, Parent Child Relationship
Acquisition of Reading Skills: Cultural Constraints and Cognitive Universals.
Foorman, Barbara R., Ed.; Siegel, Alexander W., Ed. – 1986
Noting that children in literate societies all learn the sound-symbol relationships of their languages but that orthographies, sound-symbol relationships, and societal attitudes toward literacy differ, the essays in this book explore both the universal and the culturally constrained aspects of the process of learning to read. Following an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Decoding (Reading)
Reading: The Patterning of Complex Behaviour.
Clay, Marie M. – 1977
Based on information gained in two longitudinal research studies of the beginning reading process, this book offers insights into the detection and prevention of reading failure. The 13 chapters of the book deal with the following topics: barriers to the early identification of reading problems, preschool experiences, school entry, early reading…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Environment, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education
Family Literacy: Young Children Learning to Read and Write.
Taylor, Denny – 1983
Focusing on family interaction, this book discusses a study designed to develop systematic ways of looking at reading and writing as activities that have consequences in and are affected by family life. Topics of the seven chapters are as follows: the six families involved in the research, conservation and change in the transmission of family…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Early Reading, Family Attitudes, Family Environment
Culture and the Bilingual Classroom: Studies in Classroom Ethnography.
Trueba, Henry T., Ed.; And Others – 1981
The 13 papers are grouped into 2 sections: "General Theoretical and Methodological Issues," and "Microethnographic Studies of Minority Culture Children in the Classroom." Section I includes five papers which cover the following topics: approaches to inquiry in school-community ethnography which are qualitative, yet…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education, Blacks, Classroom Research