Literacies in Early Childhood: Changing Views, Challenging Practice

by Makin, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9780864331625
• ISBN10: 0864331622
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Paul H Brookes Pub Co

Summary

Classroom instruction is just one part of a child's early literacy development. With this timely, compelling book, readers will see the "big picture" of emergent literacy from birth through age 8 - examining not only the effects of classroom practices, but also the combined influences of gender, language, culture, socioeconomic status, home environment, media, and technology. Early childhood educators and interventionists will reflect on the concept of literacy as a social practice that develops within young children's cultural and linguistic communities examine specific issues in early literacy, such as skill development in reading and writing and the use of oral communication to boost literacy in classrooms learn how diversity among children - including factors like bilingualism, home experiences with language, special needs, and gender - affects early literacy explore the important but often overlooked roles of television, computers, music, and the visual arts

Table of Contents

Part one: Frameworks for thinking about literacy
Literacy as social practice	3	(12)
Jones Diaz
Makin
Theoretical perspectives in early literacy education: Implications for practice	15	(20)
Reid
Comber
Many roads through many modes: Becoming literate in early childhood	35	(20)
Martello
Part two: Pathways to literacy
Language and social practices: Everyday talk constructing school-literate practices	55	(16)
Danby
Literacy transitions	71	(22)
Makin
Groom
Children as writers	93	(24)
Barratt-Pugh
Children as readers	117	(18)
Harris
Authentic literacy assessment	135	(22)
Fleet
Lockwood
Part three: Literacy and diversity
Building on home and community literacy experiences in early childhood education	157	(18)
Spreadbury
Other words, other worlds: Bilingual identities and literacy	175	(22)
Jones Diaz
Harvey
Indigenous literacies: The case of Maori literacy	197	(18)
Hohepa
McNaughton
Indigenous literacies: Moving from social construction towards social justice	215	(18)
Hanlen
Literacy for all? Young children and special literacy learning needs	233	(18)
McNaught
Literacy and gender in early childhood contexts: Boys on the side?	251	(18)
Alloway
Gilbert
Part four: Visual literacies, technology and aesthetics
Technoliteracy and the early years	269	(20)
Hill
Broadhurst
Literacy, music and the visual arts	289	(16)
Makin
Whiteman
Children's worlds and critical literacy	305	(20)
Jones Diaz
Beecher
Arthur
Part five: Conclusion
New pathways for literacy in early childhood education	325	(12)
Makin
Jones Diaz
Index	337