Title
Print Literacy Development : Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories / Victoria Purcell Gates, Purcell-Gates, Sophie Degener, Erik Jacobson.
ISBN
9780674042377
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (218 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674042377 doi
Call Number
LC151 ǂb P86 2004eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.2244
Summary
Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to read and write and offer a unified theory of literacy development that places cognitive development within a sociocultural context of literacy practices. Drawing on research that reveals connections between literacy as it is practiced outside of school and as it is taught in school, the authors argue that students learn to read and write through the knowledge and skills that they bring with them to the classroom as well as from the ways that literacy is practiced in their own different social communities. The authors argue that until literacy development can be understood in this broader way educators will never be able to develop truly effective literacy instruction for the broad range of sociocultural communities served by schools.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 31. Jan 2022)
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed
CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study
CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop?
CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice
CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development
CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive
CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens
CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School
Notes
References
Index
