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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783738003321

Autore

Kress Gunther R.

Titolo

Before writing : rethinking the paths to literacy / / Gunther Kress

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997

ISBN

1-134-77402-8

9786610141029

1-134-77403-6

1-280-14102-6

0-203-99269-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Disciplina

372.6

Soggetti

Language arts (Elementary)

Reading (Elementary)

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching (Elementary)

Literacy

Children - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Include bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 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; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gunther Kress argues for a radical reappraisal of the phenomenon of literacy, and hence for a profound shift in educational practice. Through close attention to the variety of objects which children constantly produce (drawings, cuttings-out, 'writings' and collages), Kress suggests a set of principles which reveal the underlying coherence of children's actions; actions which allow us to connect them with attempts to make meaning before they acquire language and



writing.This book provides fundamental challenges to commonly held assumptions about both language and literacy, thought and acti