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I Already Know How to Read A Child's View of Literacy

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ISBN-10: 0435072269

ISBN-13: 9780435072261

Edition: 1996

Authors: Prisca Martens

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Based on a three-year observation of her daughter's perception of reading and writing and her "ways to being literate," a professor of language education offers an enlightened view of what literacy is, how children learn literacy, and some unusual implications for kindergarten teachers. - Young Children Prisca Martens's most powerful teacher has been her daughter Sarah. When Sarah at age four responded "I already know how to read" to the suggestion that this was something she would learn in kindergarten, Martens realized children's perceptions of literacy and of themselves as learners may differ from those of adults. Over the three years Martens observed and analyzed Sarah's reading and…    
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Book details

List price: $36.05
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 9/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.30" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Prisca Martens is an assistant professor of language education at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Martens researches, publishes, and conducts presentations and workshops in the areas of early literacy, reading, miscue analysis, and retrospective miscue analysis.

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