Becoming Literate In The City

Author : Robert Serpell,Linda Baker,Susan Sonnenschein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521772028

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Becoming Literate in the City by Robert Serpell,Linda Baker,Susan Sonnenschein Pdf

Literacy is one of the most highly valued cultural resources of contemporary American society, yet far too many children in the nation's cities leave school without becoming sufficiently literate. This book reports the results of a five-year longitudinal study in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, tracing literacy development from pre-kindergarten through third-grade for a sample of children from low and middle income families of European and African heritage. The authors examined the intimate culture of each child's home, defined by a confluence of parental beliefs, recurrent activities, and interactive processes, in relation to children's literacy competencies. Also examined were teacher beliefs and practices, and connections between home and school. With its broad-based consideration of the contexts of early literacy development, the book makes an important contribution to understanding how best to facilitate attainment of literacy for children from diverse backgrounds.

Author : Robert Serpell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Early childhood education
ISBN : 1107128684

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Becoming Literate in the City by Robert Serpell Pdf

This book reports the results of a five-year longitudinal study of children's early literacy development based on a culturally diverse group of children and their families. The book describes children's home and school experiences related to literacy development, and it traces children's developing literacy competencies over the years.

Author : Debra Lynn Goodman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : City children
ISBN : MSU:31293021067818

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Becoming Literate in an Inner City, Whole Language School by Debra Lynn Goodman Pdf

Author : Susan B. Neuman,David K. Dickinson
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781462503353

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Handbook of Early Literacy Research by Susan B. Neuman,David K. Dickinson Pdf

The field of early literacy has seen significant recent advances in theory, research, and practice. These volumes bring together leading authorities to report on current findings, integrate insights from different disciplinary perspectives, and explore ways to provide children with the strongest possible literacy foundations in the first 6 years of life. The Handbook first addresses broad questions about the nature of emergent literacy, summarizing current knowledge on cognitive pathways, biological underpinnings, and the importance of cultural contexts. Chapters in subsequent sections examine various strands of knowledge and skills that emerge as children become literate, as well as the role played by experiences with peers and families. Particular attention is devoted to the challenges involved in making schools work for all children, including members of linguistic and ethnic minority groups and children living in poverty. Finally, approaches to instruction, assessment, and early intervention are described, and up-to-date research on their effectiveness is presented.

Author : Marie M. Clay
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015021539971

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Becoming Literate by Marie M. Clay Pdf

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, e, p, t.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : OSU:32435061585923

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Becoming Literate in Mathematics and Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Catherine Compton-Lilly,Stephanie Shedrow,Dana Hagerman,Laura Hamman-Ortiz,Yao-Kai Chi,Jieun Kim,Sun Young Lee,Kristin Papoi,Erin Quast,Brooke Ward Taira,Bingjie Zheng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000568806

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Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate by Catherine Compton-Lilly,Stephanie Shedrow,Dana Hagerman,Laura Hamman-Ortiz,Yao-Kai Chi,Jieun Kim,Sun Young Lee,Kristin Papoi,Erin Quast,Brooke Ward Taira,Bingjie Zheng Pdf

This original book offers a meaningful window into the lived experiences of children from immigrant families, providing a holistic, profound portrait of their literacy practices as situated within social, cultural, and political frames. Drawing on reports from five years of an ongoing longitudinal research project involving students from immigrant families across their elementary school years, each chapter explores a unique set of questions about the students’ experiences and offers a rich data set of observations, interviews, and student-created artifacts. Authors apply different sociocultural, sociomaterial, and sociopolitical frameworks to better understand the dimensions of the children’s experiences. The multitude of approaches applied demonstrates how viewing the same data through distinct lenses is a powerful way to uncover the differences and comparative uses of these theories. Through such varied lenses, it becomes apparent how the complexities of lived experiences inform and improve our understanding of teaching and learning, and how our understanding of multifaceted literacy practices affects students’ social worlds and identities. Children in Immigrant Families Becoming Literate is a much-needed resource for scholars, professors, researchers, and graduate students in language and literacy education, English education, and teacher education.

Author : Margaret Meek Spencer
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : UVA:X002164325

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On Being Literate by Margaret Meek Spencer Pdf

Now that the word processor has become a symbol of modern literacy, while the different forms of print confronting us increase every day, Margaret Meek has written this book with the intention of reassuring every parent worried about a child's literacy and its importance in a changing society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : CUB:U183034913764

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Resources in Education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joseph Bradley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520308466

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Muzhik and Muscovite by Joseph Bradley Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.

Author : Toby Hemenway
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781603585279

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The Permaculture City by Toby Hemenway Pdf

Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food—connecting the pieces of the landscape together in harmonious ways—applies perfectly to many of our other needs. Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs. The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we’re not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a “job” and a “livelihood,” and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community. This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.

Author : Curt Dudley-Marling,Sarah Michaels
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807753668

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High-expectation Curricula by Curt Dudley-Marling,Sarah Michaels Pdf

Despite growing evidence that all students will benefit from engaging and challenging instruction, many struggling students continue to experience a circumscribed curriculum that emphasizes low-level skills. Featuring contributions from emerging and well-known researchers, this important volume is about the enactment of high-expectation curricula in everyday practice. Chapters document specific classroom strategies that make a difference in the learning of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and cultural and linguistic minority communities. While the book focuses on language and literacy instruction, key chapters on math and science also demonstrate high-expectation teaching across the curriculum. Book Features: A broad framework for creating high-expectation curricula in underperforming K12 schools, clear illustrations of what alternative literacy practices look like, powerful examples of rich math and science instruction, research-based strategies for second language learners, students with disabilities, and struggling readers, an incisive critique of the "deficit-driven" curricula that dominates in underachieving schools and classrooms.

Author : Everett M. Rogers,Lynne Svenning
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173026789254

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Modernization Among Peasants by Everett M. Rogers,Lynne Svenning Pdf

Cross cultural analysis of rural development and technological change processes in agriculture in developing countries, with particular reference to the role of mass media in influencing rural workers behaviour in Colombia - covers social change, rural area leadership, psychological aspects of achievement motivation, educational level, social theory, social research, and the research method thereof, computer simulation in the social sciences, etc. References.

Author : Ludo Th Verhoeven
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027217912

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Functional Literacy by Ludo Th Verhoeven Pdf

The purpose of the volume is to open up new perspectives in the study of literacy by bringing together current research findings from linguistics, psychology, sociology and anthropology. The book divides into five parts. The first part deals with theoretical questions related to the definition and the modeling of the construct of functional literacy. The second part goes into the notion of literacy development. Both societal and individual aspects of literacy development are taken into account. In the next two parts the actual achievement of literacy in various regions of the world is dealt with. In part 3 the focus is on attaining literacy in developing societies, and in part 4 on attaining literacy in industrialized societies. In the final part the question is raised how functional literacy can be promoted through education. Starting from a cross-cultural perspective the central issue is how standards of functional literacy can be established throughout the world.

Author : Yetta Goodman,Prisca Martens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000149586

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Critical Issues in Early Literacy by Yetta Goodman,Prisca Martens Pdf

This volume adds in important ways to understanding the power and complexity of the forces in the lives of children that impact their literacy learning. The critical issues presented emerge from interpretivist research and thinking practices that are constructivist in nature. The chapters by researchers, teacher researchers, teacher educators, and teachers are antidotes to the present political context in which political agendas are being used to define literacy, literacy teaching and learning, and literacy research in narrow ways. Providing a rich source of information about how young children come to know reading and writing as a tool of communication in a range of social and cultural contexts, this book: *presents current research and thinking in the field; *documents research that is currently being ignored by many who make decisions about children’s learning; *values who children are and what they bring with them to school; *provides a useful tool for advocacy and for social action toward improving education in ways that can make a difference in the lives of young children; and *raises thoughtful issues for discussion. Critical Issues in Early Literacy is essential reading for early childhood teachers and prospective teachers, for teacher educators, for literacy researchers (including teacher researchers), for special educators, for those working with English-language and foreign-language learners, and for early childhood education administrators, advocates, and policy makers.