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Author Spencer, Margaret Meek, 1925-

Title On being literate / Margaret Meek.

Imprint Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, [1992]

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  302.2244 M494O    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 266 pages ; 22 cm
Note Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 1991. With a new pref.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-255) and index.
Contents About This Book -- Noticing Literacy -- Unequal Literacies -- Differences -- 1. Literacy -- Speech -- New Ways of Talking -- Writing -- What Writing Makes Possible -- Reading -- What Reading Makes Possible -- Thinking -- 2. Differences -- Being in the Know -- Being in Control -- Culture and Class -- Gender -- Texts -- Learning and Teaching -- 3. Beginnings -- What Emerges as Literacy? -- The Privileges of Play -- Language Play -- Being Read To: Marking Marks -- Beginnings -- Again -- 4. Why Are Stories Special? -- Sorting Out the World -- Episodes -- Making Worlds -- Reading to Children -- Texts -- and Pictures -- Not Only Stories -- 5. Schooled Literacy -- A Necessary Partnership -- An Historic Change: the National Curriculum -- Entitlement -- English in School -- Attainment and Assessment -- 6. Important Lessons -- Informal Lessons -- Formal Lessons and Classroom Informalities -- Consent Knowing -- 7. Literate Behaviour and Literature -- Learning From Written Text -- Textbooks and Other Resources -- Libraries and Study Skills -- Literature -- 8. Causes and Cures -- Signs of Change -- Misalignments -- What Hinders: What Helps -- Dyslexia: a Special Special Need? -- 9. New Literacies -- Old Habits: New Challenges -- Children Writing -- Television -- Computers -- Contemporary Journalism -- 10. On Being Literate.
Subject Literacy.
Literacy -- Great Britain.
Reading.
Reading -- Great Britain.
Educational sociology.
Educational sociology -- Great Britain.
Educational sociology. (OCoLC)fst00903596
Literacy. (OCoLC)fst00999859
Reading. (OCoLC)fst01090626
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Alphabetisierung.
Lesefähigkeit.
Other Form: Online version: Spencer, Margaret Meek, 1925- On being literate. Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, [1992] (OCoLC)988547976
ISBN 0435087266 (acid-free paper)
9780435087265 (acid-free paper)
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