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1 online resource (385 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Children's Early Text Construction; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; I Written and Oral Forms in Children's Language; 1 Writing and Written Language in Children's Development; 2 Roles of Oral and Written Language as Children Approach Conventional Literacy; 3 The Rhythms of Speech and Writing; 4 Use of Referential Expressions in 4-Year-Old Children's Narratives: Invented Versus Recalled Stories; 5 Children Dictating a Story: Is Together Better?; II Writing as a System of Representation; 6 Three Accounts of Literacy and the Role of the Environment |
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7 An Approach to Writing in Kindergarten8 PIZZA or PIZA? How Children Interpret the Doubling of Letters in Writing; 9 Reflections on the Comma; 10 Children's Use of Punctuation Marks: The Case of Quoted Speech; III Learning Different Uses of Written Language; 11 The Use of Information in Expository Text Writing; 12 Looking for Stylistic Features in Children Composing Stories: Products and Processes; 13 Informative Texts of Young Schoolchildren; 14 Uses of Written Language in Primary School: Codifying, Recording, and Interpreting; IV Written Language in Educational Contexts |
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15 Literacy in First Grade: Traditional and Experimental Situations16 Deaf Children and the Construction of Written Texts; 17 Reading Aloud to Young Children: Teachers' Reading Styles and Kindergartners' Text Comprehension; 18 Readers' and Writers' Talk About Language; Author Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
For decades, research on children's literacy has been dominated by questions of how children learn to read. Especially among Anglophone scholars, cognitive and psycholinguistic research on reading has been the only approach to studying written language education. Echoing this, debates on methods of teaching children to read have long dominated the educational scene. This book presents an alternative view. In recent years, writing has emerged as a central aspect of becoming literate. Research in cognitive psychology has shown that writing is a highly complex activity involving a degree of plann |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Orsolini, Margherita
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Burge, Barbara
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Resnick, Lauren B
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| ISBN |
9781135446741 |
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1135446741 |
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