Before writing : rethinking the paths to literacy
by
 
Kress, Gunther, 1940-

Title
: 
Before writing : rethinking the paths to literacy

Author
: 
Kress, Gunther, 1940-

ISBN
: 
9780415138048
 
9780415138055

Personal Author
: 
Kress, Gunther, 1940-

Publication Information
: 
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Physical Description
: 
xxii, 175 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Contents
: 
1. Literacy, identity and futures -- 2. "My Gawd, I made it like Australia': making meaning in many media -- 3. Making sense of the world: 'The seagulls are reading the newspaper' -- 4. Drawing letters and writing dinosaurs: children's early engagement with print -- 5. 'You made it like a crocodile': a theory of children's meaning-making -- 6. Literacy and theories of language -- 7. Teaching literacy, learning literacy -- 8. Futures.

Subject Term
: 
Language arts (Primary)
 
Reading (Primary)
 
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Primary)
 
Literacy.
 
Children -- Language.


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