Language Stories and Literacy Lessons

by Carolyn Burke, Jerome C. Harste, Jerome Harste, et al.

Book Overview

The authors reveal children as growing, effective, sensitive users of language. Before any formal schooling, they have already had much experience with language - opportunities to compare, contrast, and use it in a wide variety of settings. Children are adaptive, and are aware of the contextual subtleties of language; the written and spoken evidence of children's encounters with language is the basis of the research. This evidence tells stories -...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435082116
• ISBN13: 9780435082116
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8