Becoming Literate

Name: Becoming Literate
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ISBN: 9780435085742

ISBN-10: 0435085743

ISBN-13: 9780435085742

Edition: 2nd 1991

Authors: Marie Clay

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Children are taught about stories, words, letters, and sounds in many different programs in their first years of literacy instruction. In this book Marie Clay argues that underlying the progress of successful children there is another level of competencies being learned. Successful readers show a gradual control over how readers or writers can work with print even though they learn in very different programs. This inner strategic control is what failing readers do not seem to build. Successful readers begin very early to learn myriad of things which support their independent processing of texts. They do this learning in interaction with parents and teachers, but they gradually come to…

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List price: $43.75
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 4/15/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.10" long x 0.86" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English




A Framework of Issues



A Framework of Issues



Transitions and Translations



Literacy Before Schooling



School Entry


A Transition



Oral Language Support for Early Literacy



Introducing Children to Print at School



Attention and the Twin Puzzles of Text Reading: Serial Order and Hierarchical Order



Attention to Concepts About Print



Interacting with Beginning Reading Books



Problem-Solving Using Information of More Than One Kind



Choosing Texts: Contrived Texts, Story Book Texts, and Transitional Texts



Progress on the First Reading Books



The Deep Structure of Success: Reading Strategies



Behaviors Signal a Developing Inner Control



Visual Perception Strategies: One Kind of Inner Control



The Development of Processing Strategies



Extending Inner Control