| Description |
1 online resource (585 pages) |
| Contents |
1 Auto-bibliography -- 2 Reading the first place -- 3 Other places, other times -- 4 Out of the murk -- 5 Stereotypes and series books -- 6 The invitation of literature -- 7 A household ecology -- 8 A multimodal literacy event -- 9 How I spent my summer holiday, 1959 -- 10 Literacies of the season -- 11 Miscellaneous and utility literacies -- 12 Cowboys and others -- 13 Settler stories -- 14 Now and then, here and there -- 15 Marking the years -- 16 Shape-shifting discourses -- 17 Institutions of literacy -- 18 Back to the first place |
| Summary |
"In a significant and unique contribution to our understanding of reading and literacy development, Margaret Mackey draws together memory, textual criticism, social analysis, and reading theory in an extraordinary act of self-study. One Child Reading reflects a remarkable academic undertaking. Seeking a deeper sense of what happens when we read, Mackey revisited the texts she read, viewed, listened to, and played as she became literate in the 1950s and 1960s in St. John's, Newfoundland. This tremendous sweep of reading included school texts, knitting patterns, and games, as well as hundreds of books. The result is not a memoir but rather a deftly theorized exploration of how a reader is constructed. This is an essential book for librarians, classroom teachers, those involved in literacy development, and all serious readers."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mackey, Margaret, 1948- -- Books and reading
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Mackey, Margaret, 1948- -- Childhood and youth
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Reading.
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Literacy.
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literacy.
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Multi-Language Phrasebooks.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Alphabets & Writing Systems.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Readers.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Spelling.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Books and reading
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Literacy
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Reading
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Electronic books
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Biographies
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Autobiographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781772121476 |
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1772121479 |
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1772120391 |
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9781772120394 |
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