Multiple Worlds of Child Writers: Friends Learning to Write (Early Childhood Education Series)

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.

Education & Teaching

Dyson, Anne Haas

Schools & Teaching

Teachers' College Press

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.

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Words, Language & Grammar

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (Language and Literacy Series)

Dyson supports efforts to make literacy curricula accessible to our schools’ socioculturally diverse population. This two-year ethnographic study of K–3 children focuses on six students who would normally be deemed “at-risk” and who do not tell stories in the written language format valued by most early literacy educators. Their literacy learning, particularly their writing development, is portrayed as a social process in a complex social world. Dyson’s key theme is the link between composing a text and composing a place in this social world.

Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy (Language and Literacy Series)

Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of seven to nine-year-olds, this work examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literary curriculum. In one sense, this work is about children "writing superheroes" - about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people - boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanours and social classes. The book, then, is about children as "writing superheroes". With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.

Teachers College Pr

Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of seven to nine-year-olds, this work examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literary curriculum. In one sense, this work is about children "writing superheroes" - about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people - boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanours and social classes. The book, then, is about children as "writing superheroes". With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.

Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of “textual toys” from children’s lives―church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays―upon school learning and writing. Wonderfully rich portraits of five African American first-graders demonstrate how children’s imaginative use of wider cultural symbols enriches their school learning. Featuring lively and engaging vignettes of children who are often left behind by our educational system, this book: <ul>
<li> Provides a detailed view of written language development from inside a particular childhood culture.</li> <li> Shows that children bring a rich folk culture to school and demonstrates how they “remix” their cultural references to accommodate school tasks such as writing.</li> <li> Turns the traditional educational view inside out by starting from inside a child’s culture and looking out toward the demands of school, rather than starting on the outside of the child and looking in.</li> <li> Provides concrete examples of how children’s cultural literacy practices translate into classroom practices and, in turn, into practices of academic success.</li>
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The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture (Language and Literacy Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In this seminal book on the construction of case studies in the field of language and literacy, the authors consider in detail what it means to be “on the case.” They evaluate the basic assumptions that ground a qualitative approach to case study methodology, the decisions entailed in designing a case study, and the possibilities and challenges of data collection and analysis. For the novice researcher, this book is an essential manual on how to design and carry out a case study. For the experienced researcher, this book offers fresh insights into the theoretical issues that underpin qualitative case study research. Features: <ul>
<li> Examples from the authors’ research with young children and their teachers, demonstrating how any school and any classroom can present a plethora of potential “cases.”</li> <li> Attention to the subtleties of procedure that are seldom discussed in research reports, including interactions with children in classrooms and other relational complexities. </li> <li> An annotated list of suggestions for further reading.</li>
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On the Case: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research (an NCRLL Volume) (NCRLL Collection)

Genishi, Celia

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Multiple Worlds of Child Writers: Friends Learning to Write (Early Childhood Education Series)

Multiple Worlds of Child Writers: Friends Learning to Write (Early Childhood Education Series)

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (Language and Literacy Series)

Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School (Language and Literacy Series)

Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy (Language and Literacy Series)

Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and Classroom Literacy (Language and Literacy Series)

The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture (Language and Literacy Series)

The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Culture (Language and Literacy Series)

On the Case: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research (an NCRLL Volume) (NCRLL Collection)

On the Case: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research (an NCRLL Volume) (NCRLL Collection)