| Description |
xvii, 266 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
About This Book. Noticing Literacy. Unequal Literacies. Differences -- 1. Literacy. Speech. New Ways of Talking. Writing. What Writing Makes Possible. Reading. What Reading Makes Possible. Thinking -- 2. Differences. Being in the Know. Being in Control. Culture and Class. Gender. Texts. Learning and Teaching -- 3. Beginnings. What Emerges as Literacy? The Privileges of Play. Language Play. Being Read To: Marking Marks. Beginnings - Again -- 4. Why Are Stories Special? Sorting Out the World. Episodes. Making Worlds. Reading to Children. Texts - and Pictures. Not Only Stories -- 5. Schooled Literacy. A Necessary Partnership. An Historic Change: the National Curriculum. Entitlement. English in School. Attainment and Assessment -- 6. Important Lessons. Informal Lessons. Formal Lessons and Classroom Informalities. Consent Knowing -- 7. Literate Behaviour and Literature. Learning From Written Text. Textbooks and Other Resources. Libraries and Study Skills. Literature |
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8. Causes and Cures. Signs of Change. Misalignments. What Hinders: What Helps. Dyslexia: a Special Special Need? -- 9. New Literacies. Old Habits: New Challenges. Children Writing. Television. Computers. Contemporary Journalism -- 10. On Being Literate |
| Notes |
Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 1991. With a new pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index |
| Notes |
Originally published London : Bodley Head, 1991 |
| Subject |
Educational sociology -- Great Britain.
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Educational sociology.
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Literacy -- Great Britain.
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Literacy.
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Reading -- Great Britain.
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Reading.
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| LC no. |
92024785 |
| ISBN |
0435087266 (acid-free paper) |
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