Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (Language & Literacy)

by Anne Haas Dyson

Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools' socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K-3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed "at-risk" and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson's key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world.

• ISBN10: 0585180512
• ISBN13: 9780585180519
• Publish Date: December 1993
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Teachers' College Press
• Format: eBook
• Language: English