1st Edition

Thinking About Literacy Young Children and Their Language

By Fred Sedgwick Copyright 1999
    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    186 Pages
    by Routledge

    Thinking About Literacy discusses the literacy of children in the infant years. The author takes the view that the child is an active learner when he/she arrives in school, and that it is the school's job to build on what the child already knows. The book addresses issues such as spelling, writing, and children talking and writing about moral matters. It has an optimistic view of the potential of children to surprise us with their language and emphasises that literacy is for life, not just for an hour.

    Acknowledgements, Dedicatory poem: To the children, Introduction: language and humanity: literacy hour or literacy life?, PART I Children and talk, PART II Children and writing, PART III Children and reading, References, Index

    Biography

    Fred Sedgwick