Multiple Worlds of Child Writers: Friends Learning to Write (Early Childhood Education)
by Anne Haas Dyson
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Based on a two-year study of K-3 students, this book provides an important missing link in the study of emergent literacy: the peer group and the classroom contexts that surround it. Most works on children's writing stress that children must "disembed" or "decontextualize" their written texts from dependency on other symbolic media and other people. Dyson, however, shows that to develop as writers, children's text must become progressively more embedded in the social, affective, and show more intellectual parts of their lives. The book also emphasizes the nature of the classroom rather than the home as a distinctive context for early literacy growth. Moreover, the classroom is an urban one that includes children from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds. show lessTags
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Anne Haas Dyson is a professor of education policy, organization, and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include (with Celia Genishi) Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times and Rewriting the Basics: Literacy Learning in Children's Cultures.
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