1st Edition

Being Skilled The Socializations of Learning to Read

By Stuart McNaughton Copyright 1987
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1987, Being Skilled presents a new model of how children learn to read, and in particular those who learn quickly and precociously. Bringing together ideas from such diverse sources as cognitive and developmental psychology and behaviour analysis perspectives on learning, Stuart McNaughton has produced a more complete theory based on a study of homes and classrooms, and... Read more

Acknowledgements.  Introduction: Another Account of Learning to Read?  Part 1: An Orchestrated Performance: Reading as a Skill  1. Strategies and Feedback  2. Intending and Knowing  Part 2: The Acts of Learning  3. Being Perturbed: Learning from Problems  4. Overcoming the General Problem: Practice Making Perfect  5. Dominance During Instruction  Part 3: Learning to be Skilled  6. The Conditions of Learning  7. Making Interactions Work: Setting Events for Learning  8. Knowing from a ‘No’: The Case for Error Feedback  9. Praise, Conversation and Putting It All Together  Part 4: Socializations  10. The Early Socializations of Learning to Read  11. The Transition: From Home to School  12. Being Schooled  13. Becoming a Skilled Reader.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Stuart McNaughton