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Peer reviewedTaylor, JoEllyn – Language Arts, 1977
A disproportionate emphasis on mechanics impairs students' reading by detracting from the focus they should have on making sense of the world. (DD)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Early Reading, Elementary Education, Reading
Direct linkWhitemore, Kathryn F.; Martens, Prisca; Goodman, Yetta; Owocki, Gretchen – Language Arts, 2005
Critical lessons that share a transactional view of early literacy development are synthesized. A transactional view of reading and writing means that literacy as a meaning construction process, and that within a given literacy event, both the text and the reader are changed.
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Early Reading, Reading Research, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedSpencer, Margaret – Language Arts, 1986
Suggests that reading and writing are not only language competencies displayed in literacy or literature but that they are the sites for analysis in emergent literacies. (DF)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy, Language Arts
