Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id PAA28063; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:10:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 15:10:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <cbce5f34.3644a95e@aol.com> Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1764] Re: Print-Rich Environments X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Mac sub 85 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Actually, this area is a treasure trove once you spend a little time in it. 1) Children's Emergent Literacy, David F. Lancy, ed. , 1994, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1994 2) Other People's Words, Purcell-Gates, Victoria, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995 3) Ways with Words, Heath, S.B., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983 This should keep you going for awhile. These books are foundational for understanding what literacy is and isn't, because a print rich environment is seen as embedded in people's daily lives. (also a print-poor environment, and my use "rich" and "poor" here is a problem in itself, as you will see when you do the reading). Often the reader/student of literacy is placed within the school environment, then travels with the writer to the home environment. These books start out the other way. They recognize that "school" is artificial, made-up, and that life emanates from the home and then goes to the school. They also make the point that unless a teacher knows first-hand about the child's home environment, matching school teaching with home practice is a rough guess at best-- assuming the teacher wants to know. Anybody who disagrees should do the teaching, do the reading, and visit the homes of the children in their classes. Go to the library and make some wonderful friends! Andrea Wilder
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