Scribble scrabble : learning to read and write : success with diverse teachers, children, and families

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    • Meier, Daniel R.

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Scribble scrabble : learning to read and write : success with diverse teachers, children, and families

Daniel R. Meier

Teachers College Press, 2000

  • : cloth
  • : pbk

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Learning to read and write

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-147) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780807738825

Description

Based on the author's teaching experiences with young children, ""Scribble, Scrabble"" offers a cogent and timely discussion of ways to unite developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive literacy practices. The text unites theory, research and actual teaching practices to broaden and deepen current interest on creating and implementing meaningful and responsive literacy practices and activities during children's early school years. ""Scribble Scrabble"" also features actual student texts, writing, and drawings and discussions with preschool and elementary school teachers as well as parents regarding their views on literacy development for diverse learners in our contemporary schools.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Schooling, Diversity and Literacy Education: Literacy in the Preschool
  • Children, Teachers and Families
  • Development, Diversity and Literacy
  • Toward Common Ground. Part 2 Literacy, Children and Teaching: Physical, Action, Power
  • The Roots of Literacy for Young Children
  • Scribble Scrabble
  • Tensions of Form and Function
  • A Contemporary Childhood
  • Literacy in a Child's World. Part 3 Widening Circles of Literacy: Literacy and Schooling
  • The Perspectives of Teachers
  • Parents and Families
  • New Voices in Literacy Education.
Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780807738832

Description

Based on the author's teaching experiences with young children, "Scribble, Scrabble" offers a cogent and timely discussion of ways to unite developmentally appropriate and culturally responsive literacy practices. The text unites theory, research and actual teaching practices to broaden and deepen current interest on creating and implementing meaningful and responsive literacy practices and activities during children's early school years. "Scribble Scrabble" also features actual student texts, writing, and drawings and discussions with preschool and elementary school teachers as well as parents regarding their views on literacy development for diverse learners in our contemporary schools.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Schooling, Diversity and Literacy Education: Literacy in the Preschool
  • Children, Teachers and Families
  • Development, Diversity and Literacy
  • Toward Common Ground. Part 2 Literacy, Children and Teaching: Physical, Action, Power
  • The Roots of Literacy for Young Children
  • Scribble Scrabble
  • Tensions of Form and Function
  • A Contemporary Childhood
  • Literacy in a Child's World. Part 3 Widening Circles of Literacy: Literacy and Schooling
  • The Perspectives of Teachers
  • Parents and Families
  • New Voices in Literacy Education.

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