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Literate Apprenticeships The Emergence of Language and Literacy in the Preschool Years
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Kenneth Reeder, Jon Shapiro, Rita Watson, Hillel Goelman
Book Code: AB1486
ISBN: 1-56750-148-6
ISBN-13: 978-1-56750-148-3
Ablex Publishing
Publication: 1/1/1996
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
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Series Title: Advances in Discourse Processes
Series Number: 56
Description: With an Introduction by Anthony D. Pellegrini, this work is one of the most extensive studies of early language and literacy undertaken to date. This volume describes the four interdisciplinary facets of a three-year longitudinal investigation of the early literate and linguistic experience and knowledge of a cohort of sixty 3- and 4-year-olds. Coverage includes: an extensive survey of home literate environment and development across a broad range of earliest literate and meta-literate knowledge over the three-year span of the study; links early literate experience and knowledge to differential strategies of speech act comprehension over time, showing that early literate experience heightens dependence upon linguistic as distinct from contextual information in comprehension; the employment of parent-child book reading as the matrix for a detailed analysis of lexical development, relating forms of parent-child interaction around text to variation in sophistication of reference; and finally, the examination of child-child interaction in a detailed, naturalistic framework, in relation to aspects of literate experience and knowledge.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Importance of a Developmental Perspective in Early Literacy Research
  • From Communication to Literacy
  • Home Literacy Environment and Meta-Literate Awareness
  • Early Literate Experience, Meta-literate Knowledge and the Comprehension of Speech Acts
  • Talk About Text: Literate Discourse and Meta-Literate Knowledge
  • Literate Apprenticeships and Oral Discourse
  • A Portrait of the Literate Apprentice
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