Make way for literacy!: teaching the way young children learn / Gretchen Owocki

By:

Owocki , Gretchen

Publication details: Portsmouth, N.H. : Washington, D.C. : Heinemann ; NAEYC, 2001Description: vi, 210 p. ill. 23cmISBN:

0-325-00270-3

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

372.6 O979

Contents:

Literacies and Teaching -- How Literacy Develops -- Evaluating Children's Literacy Knowledge -- Inquiring into Children's Literacies -- Literacy Engagements -- Exploring Children's Literature -- Take-Home Literature Packs -- Storytelling -- Literature Circles -- Readers Theatre -- Poetry -- Sociodramatic Play and Literacy.

Summary: A Make way for Literacy! starts with a brief explanation of how literacy begins to develop first in a childs home and neighborhood, Owocki points out the various individual traits, family activities, and basic literacy practices that can be so influential-- and then focuses on preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades. Next. the book offers four key principles for understanding and facilitating literacy, along with easy-to-follow techniques for starting-or refining- teacher research and inquiry in the classroom.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books, Booklets	Shortwood Teachers' College Library General Stacks	372.6 O979 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0000603

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A Make way for Literacy! starts with a brief explanation of how literacy begins to develop first in a childs home and neighborhood, Owocki points out the various individual traits, family activities, and basic literacy practices that can be so influential-- and then focuses on preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades. Next. the book offers four key principles for understanding and facilitating literacy, along with easy-to-follow techniques for starting-or refining- teacher research and inquiry in the classroom.

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