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Critical Issues in Early Literacy Research and Pedagogy

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ISBN-10: 0805859004

ISBN-13: 9780805859003

Edition: 2007

Authors: Prisca Martens, Yetta Goodman

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This volume adds in important ways to understanding the power and complexity of the forces in the lives of children that impact their literacy learning. The critical issues presented emerge from interpretivist research and thinking practices that are constructivist in nature. The chapters by researchers, teacher researchers, teacher educators, and teachers are antidotes to the present political context in which political agendas are being used to define literacy, literacy teaching and learning, and literacy research in narrow ways. Providing a rich source of information about how young children come to know reading and writing as a tool of communication in a range of social and cultural…    
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Book details

List price: $61.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
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.

Yetta Goodman is credited with popularizing the concept of kidwatching. She is Regents Professor at the University of Arizona College of Education's Division of Language, Reading, and Culture. A book of her writings, Notes from A Kidwatcher: Selected Writings of Yetta M. Goodman, was edited by Sandra Wilde and published by Heinemann in 1996. She was recently awarded an honorary doctorate from Hofstra University.

Preface
About the Contributors
What Children Know About Literacy
Effective Young Beginning Readers
The Literacy Stories of Tang-Tang and Tien-Tien
Biliteracy As Social Practice in Schooling: A Bilingual First Grader's Journey in Learning to Read and Write in L1 and L2
Eye Movement and Strategic Reading
Letters and Numbers in Early Literacy
Literacy Learning in the Classroom
Documenting Critical Literacy Development in Classrooms
Writing From a Personal Perspective: A Story of Two Classrooms
Monolingual Teachers Fostering Students' Native Literacies
Nurturing Reflective Readers in Primary Grades Through Over the Shoulder Miscue Analysis
Influences on Retellings: Learning From High and Low Retellers
Literacy "Basics" in Childhood Spaces: A Critical Perspective on the "Basics"
Literacy Learning Through Home and School Collaborations
Bridging the Worlds of Home and School: Keeping Children's Identities Whole in the Classroom
No Gain in Blame: Fostering Collaborations Between Home and School
Invisible Mediators of Literacy: Learning in Multicultural Communities
Cultural and Political Perspectives on Early Literacy
Debates About Cultural Authenticity in Literature for Young Children
War and Peas in the 21st Century: Young Children Responding Critically to Picture Story Texts
Learning to be Culturally Responsive: Lessons From a Beginning Teacher
Critical Issues in Early Foreign Language Literacy Instruction: Taiwan Experience
Reading Everybody's Child: Teaching Literacy as a Human Right
Author Index
Subject Index