| Description |
x, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Composing a Place in the Classroom Neighborhood -- Framing Child Texts with Child Worlds: Ways of Studying Language, Literacy, and Diversity -- Learning to Write as Social Work -- Cultural Traditions in School Worlds -- Children Discovering and Crossing Cultural Boundaries -- Studying Children's Social and Text Worlds -- The Official Classroom World: A Permeable Curriculum -- A Dialogue of Images and Sounds: The School Context -- The Classroom Context -- The Dialogic Curriculum -- Unofficial Classroom Worlds: Children Taking Action Through Language -- The Complexity of the Children's Social Worlds -- Composing Unofficial Neighborhoods -- The Sociocentric Child at Work and Play -- The Case Study Children: Social Actors and Literacy Users -- The Social Work and Symbolic Tools of Child Composers -- Beginning Portraits -- On Child Composing as Social Work -- Jameel: Staking a Claim on the Official Literacy Curriculum -- Jameel: The Case of the Singing Scientist, Part I -- Jameel Midyear: Negotiating a Classroom Place -- Coda: On Boundaries -- Jameel: Claims, Inroads, and Emerging Crossroads -- Jameel: The Case of the Singing Scientist, Part II -- Summary: Finding a Social Place at School -- Lamar and Eugenie: From Textual Crossroads to Curricular Side Roads -- Toward Texts as Curricular Crossroads -- Composing on Curricular Side Roads -- On Crossroads, Side Roads, and Unpredictable Stories -- Ayesha and William: The Politics of Composing in the Third Grade -- Louise's Third-Grade Class -- William and Ayesha. |
| Subject |
Language arts (Primary) -- United States -- Case studies.
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Education, Urban -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies.
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Socialization.
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| ISBN |
0807732966 alkaline paper |
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9780807732960 alkaline paper |
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0807732958 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780807732953 paperback alkaline paper |
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