Title: Critical issues in early literacy : research and pedagogy /
Authors: Goodman, Yetta M., 1931-; Martens, Prisca.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Language arts (Preschool); Reading (Preschool); Literacy; Children Language
Abstract: This volume helps understand the power and complexity of the forces in the lives of children that impact their literacy learning. The critical issues presented emerge from interpretivist research and thinking practices that are constructivist in nature. --From publisher's description.
Contents: pt. I. What children know about literacy. Effective young beginning readers / Debra Goodman, Alan Flurkey, and Yetta Goodman ; The literacy stories of Tang-Tang and Tien-Tien / Wen-Yun Lin ; Biliteracy as social practice in schooling : a bilingual first grader's journey in learning to read and write in L1 and L2 / Barbara M. Flores ; Eye movement and strategic reading / Koomi Kim, Marge Knox, and Joel Brown ; Letters and numbers in early literacy / Emilia Ferreiro --^