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Children's First School Books. Introductions to the Culture of Literacy.

Baker, Carolyn D.; Freebody, Peter – 1989

Interweaving sociological/interpretive and cognitive/linguistic perspectives, this book explores the ways in which children first encounter the written word in formal schooling. The book examines the "culture" of literacy as it is introduced and practiced in a corpus of 163 basal and supplementary readers used in a representative…

Descriptors: Basal Reading, Beginning Reading, Content Analysis, Emergent Literacy

The Word for Teaching Is Learning: Essays for James Britton.

Lightfoot, Martin, Ed.; Martin, Nancy, Ed. – 1988

Reflecting the influence of James Britton in the field of language and learning, this book--a collection of essays by researchers and practitioners in the area of language and learning--focuses on recent issues of language development in learning. The book contains the following 27 essays: (1) "Social Interaction as Scaffold: The Power and…

Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition