The Making of a Reader

by Marilyn Cochran-Smith

Book Overview

This volume helps parents and early childhood educators understand the nature of early literacy at home and at school. Ways in which nursery school structures support and extend childrens's literacy are explored. This volume, based on an 18-month ethnographic study of story reading and other literacy events in nursery school, describes parents' attitudes, beliefs, and values about literacy, nursery school organization of time and space, how reading...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893911879
• ISBN13: 9780893911874
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"