Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School

by Anne Haas Dyson

Book Overview

Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools' socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed "at-risk" and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807732958
• ISBN13: 9780807732953
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 6