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Juliebo, Moira F. – 1991
The inclusion of talk, written language, and body language are critically important in primary classrooms. Although reading and writing may be regarded as cognitive activities, they are embedded in a social/cultural milieu, and the practice of mechanical decoding as a necessary precedent to real reading is not pedagogically sound. A whole class…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Emergent Literacy