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ReWRITING the Basics - Literacy Learning in Children's Cultures (Hardcover)
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ReWRITING the Basics - Literacy Learning in Children's Cultures (Hardcover)
Series: Language & Literacy Series
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What are the real "basics" of writing, how should they be taught,
and what do they look like in children's worlds? In her new book,
Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and
regimented class routines work against young children's natural
social learning processes. Readers will have a front-row seat in
Mrs. Bee's kindergarten and Mrs. Kay's 1st-grade class, where these
dedicated teachers taught writing basics in schools serving
predominately low-income children of colour. The children, it turns
out, had their own expectations for one another's actions during
writing time. Driven by desires for companionship and meaning, they
used available linguistic and multimodal resources to construct
their shared lives. In so doing, they stretch, enrich, and
ultimately transform our own understandings of the basics.
ReWRITING the Basics goes beyond critiquing traditional writing
basics to place them in the linguistic diversity and multimodal
texts of children's everyday worlds. This engaging work:
illustrates how scripted, uniform curricula can reduce the
resources of so-called ""at-risk"" children, provides insight into
how children may situate writing within the relational ethics and
social structures of childhood cultures, offers guiding principles
for creating a programme that will expand children's possibilities
in ways that are compatible with human sociability, includes
examples of children's writing, reflections on research methods,
and demographic tables.
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