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

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

Presents the results of a two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children 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.

Anne Haas Dyson is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School, Writing Superheroes, The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write, and with Celia Genishi, Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times.

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ISBN 13	9780807732953
ISBN 10	0807732958
Title	Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School
Author	Ah Dyson
Series	Language And Literacy Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Teachers' College Press
Year published	1994-06-30
Number of pages	288
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