| Description |
viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Language and literacy series |
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Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
School Literacy: The View from Inside a Child Culture -- Slipping into a Child Culture -- Conceptual Tools for Tracing the Threads of Child Literacy -- Methodological Tools for Constructing the Project Data Set -- A Writing Development Remix: The Plan of the Book -- Mapping the Cultural Landscape of a Contemporary Childhood -- "Childtimes" -- The Social Usefulness of Textual Toys -- Venturing Out from a Childhood Landscape: Toward School Literacy Practices -- The Brothers and Sisters in the Classroom Family: Entering School Literacy Practices -- Organizing the Classroom Family: Introduction to Official Space -- Child Journeys into Official Space -- Textual Borders in Permeable Space: The Consequences of Star Wars and Space Jam -- Toward Situating Childhoods in Composing Spaces -- Sports Matters: Marcel and the Textual Mediation of Coach Bombay's and Ms. Rita's Worlds -- The Textual Resources of Sports Media -- Marcel and the Written Word -- On Coach Bombay's Kids and Writing -- Animated Adventures: Noah's Textual Ark -- The Textual Resources of Animated Media -- Noah and the Written Word -- Young Children's Writing as Testing the (Social) Waters -- Singing Stars: Denise's Musical Voices -- The Cultural Resources of Music Media -- Denise and the Written Word -- "All God's Children Got [School] Shoes" -- A Writing Development Remix -- How the Present Builds on the Past: It's a Rap -- Situating Clay's "Kaleidoscopic Reshuffle": A Coach Bombay Remix -- Teachers' Work and the Dialogic Rhythms of Writing Development. |
| Summary |
Here, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of "textual toys" from children's lives - church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays - upon school learning and writing. |
| Subject |
Children -- Language.
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Educational sociology -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Semiotics.
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Literacy.
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Children -- Language.
(OCoLC)fst00855024
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Educational sociology. (OCoLC)fst00903596
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Literacy. (OCoLC)fst00999859
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Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
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Semiotics. (OCoLC)fst01112351
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
0807742813 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780807742815 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0807742805 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780807742808 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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