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Print Literacy Development : Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories / Victoria Purcell Gates, Purcell-Gates, Sophie Degener, Erik Jacobson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674042377
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2244
LOC classification:
  • LC151 ǂb P86 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed -- CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study -- CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop? -- CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice -- CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development -- CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive -- CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors argue that students learn to read and write through the knowledge and skills that they bring with them to the classroom as well as from the ways that literacy is practiced in their own different social communities. The authors argue that until literacy development can be understood in this broader way educators will never be able to develop truly effective literacy instruction for the broad range of sociocultural communities served by schools.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed -- CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study -- CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop? -- CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice -- CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development -- CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive -- CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens -- CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors argue that students learn to read and write through the knowledge and skills that they bring with them to the classroom as well as from the ways that literacy is practiced in their own different social communities. The authors argue that until literacy development can be understood in this broader way educators will never be able to develop truly effective literacy instruction for the broad range of sociocultural communities served by schools.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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