Print Literacy Development : : Uniting Cognitive and Social Practice Theories / / Victoria Purcell Gates, Purcell-Gates, Sophie Degener, Erik Jacobson.

Is literacy a social and cultural practice, or a set of cognitive skills to be learned and applied? Literacy researchers, who have differed sharply on this question, will welcome this book, which is the first to address the critical divide. The authors lucidly explain how we develop our abilities to...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]
©2004
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (218 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • CHAPTER ONE To Learn to Read and Write: Students Who Fail and Succeed
  • CHAPTER TWO The LPALS Study
  • CHAPTER THREE How Does Print Literacy Develop?
  • CHAPTER FOUR Literacy as Social Practice
  • CHAPTER FIVE Print Literacy as Cognitive Skill Development
  • CHAPTER SIX The Seeming Incommensurability of the Social and the Cognitive
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Print Literacy Development through a Widened Lens
  • CHAPTER EIGHT The Course of Print Literacy Development in and out of School
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index