Multiple Worlds of Child Writers : Friends Learning to Write

Dyson, Anne Haas, Williams, Leslie R.

ISBN 10: 080772971X / ISBN 13: 9780807729717

Published by Teachers College Press, 1990

About this Item

Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Multiple Worlds of Child Writers : Friends Learning to Write
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080772971X
• ISBN 13: 9780807729717
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: New Ed.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 1.049 pounds

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Synopsis

Based on a two-year study of K–3 students, this book provides an important missing link in the study of emergent literacy: the peer group and the classroom contexts that surround it. Most works on children’s writing stress that children must “disembed” or “decontextualize” their written texts from dependency on other symbolic media and other people. Dyson, however, shows that to develop as writers, children’s text must become progressively more embedded in the social, affective, and intellectual parts of their lives. The book also emphasizes the nature of the classroom rather than the home as a distinctive context for early literacy growth. Moreover, the classroom is an urban one that includes children from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds.