Becoming Literate

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-04-15
Publisher(s): Heinemann
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Summary

The concept that only the child can construct inner strategic control develops Marie Clay's earlier description of the complex behaviors which support literacy learning.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(5)
PART ONE: A FRAMEWORK OF ISSUES 5(20)
A Framework of Issues
6(19)
PART TWO: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS 25(130)
Literacy Before Schooling
26(19)
School Entry--A Transition
45(24)
Oral Language Support for Early Literacy
69(22)
Introducing Children to Print at School
91(22)
Attention and the Twin Puzzles of Text Reading: Serial Order and Hierarchical Order
113(28)
Attention to Concepts About Print
141(14)
PART THREE: INTERACTING WITH BEGINNING READING BOOKS 155(76)
Problem-solving Using Information of More Than One Kind
156(20)
Choosing Texts: Contrived Texts, Story Book Texts and Transitional Texts
176(27)
Progress on the First Reading Books
203(28)
PART FOUR: THE DEEP STRUCTURE OF SUCCESS: READING STRATEGIES 231(115)
Behaviours Signal a Developing Inner Control
232(26)
Visual Perception Strategies: One Kind of Inner Control
258(30)
The Development of Processing Strategies
288(29)
Extending the Inner Control
317(29)
Bibliography 346(12)
Index 358

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