Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.
Contents
Classroom instruction. Vygotsky's sociohistorical perspective on learning and its application to western literacy instruction / Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss -- Emerging readers and writers / Martha Combs -- Spontaneous and scientific concepts in content-area instruction / Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss -- Book club : the influence of a Vygotskian perspective on a literature-based reading program / Susan I. McMahon -- Collaborative learning and thinking : the Vygotskian approach / Clara M. Jennings and Xu Di.
Vygotsky and writing : children using language to learn and learning from the child's language what to teach / Marian Matthews -- The concept of activity / Patricia Ashton -- Classroom assessment. Vygotsky and multicultural assessment and instruction / Nile V. Stanley -- Vygotsky and at-risk readers : assessment and instructional implications / Sherry Kragler -- Using portfolios to mediate literacy instruction and assessment / Lyn Rothwell Wagner and Dana Brock.
Vygotsky in the future : technology as a mediation tool for literacy instruction / Joe M. Peters.