The Making of a Reader
The Making of a Reader by Marilyn Cochran-Smith, published by Bloomsbury Academic in January 1984, is a comprehensive exploration of early literacy aimed at parents and early childhood educators. This 290-page volume delves into the dynamics of literacy development both at home and in nursery school settings, providing insights based on an 18-month ethnographic study of story reading and other literacy events.
Readers will find a detailed examination of how nursery school structures can support and enhance children’s literacy experiences. The book discusses parents’ attitudes, beliefs, and values regarding literacy, as well as the organization of time and space within nursery schools. It highlights the role of story reading events in helping children understand books and use them as tools for learning about the world around them.
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This volume helps parents and early childhood educators understand the nature of early literacy at home and at school. Ways in which nursery school structures support and extend childrens’s literacy are explored. This volume, based on an 18-month ethnographic study of story reading and other literacy events in nursery school, describes parents’ attitudes, beliefs, and values about literacy, nursery school organization of time and space, how reading and writing is used by nursery school participants and how story reading events help children learn to make sense of books and use books to learn about the world.
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