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

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Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School - Dyson, Anne Haas, and Genishi, Celia (Editor), and Strickland, Dorothy S (Editor)
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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 key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in ...

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Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School 1994, Teachers College Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780807732953

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