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Peer reviewedDyson, Anne Haas – Language Arts, 2003
Offers an account of school literacy development for all children. Uses a metaphoric "drinking god" to capture the influence that children's nonacademic textual experiences have on their entry into school literacy. Aims to describe how children use old resources from familiar practices and adapt them to enter into new ones. (SG)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Elementary Education, Inferences, Media Literacy
Direct linkStone, Jennifer C. – Language Arts, 2005
This article examines a children's book writing workshop for middle school students of color in which 12 girls participated. The curriculum was developed to create intersections between students' in- and out-of-school lives. The students' writing within the workshop is analyzed by unpacking their "recontextualizations" of settings, characters,…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Popular Culture, Middle School Students, Writing Instruction
