She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth-grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the importance of including all of the girls' voices into the curriculum where their voices can be nurtured, cultured, and responded to in potentially productive ways. Through an exploration of two major writing contexts, the public and the private, Brett Elizabeth Blake chronicles how the girls learned through their writing not only how to name issues salient to them, such as domesticity and racism, but also how to resist the underlying notions of...
She Say, He Say reveals the development of fifth-grade urban girls' voices through their own writing in the classroom. This book underscores the impor...
Not long ago, literacy simply meant knowing how to read and write. Today, the study of literacy is a complex field encompassing many different areas, from computer literacy to geographic literacy, and including several degrees of competence such as functional, pragmatic, and cultured. In addition there are six kinds of readers: the submissive, the active, the semiotic, the subjective, the psychoanalytic, and the interpretive community reader, and at least two distinct ways of reading: aesthetic reading and rational reading.
In this comprehensive, accessible volume, two literacy experts...
Not long ago, literacy simply meant knowing how to read and write. Today, the study of literacy is a complex field encompassing many different area...
A Road Less Travelled: Critical literacy and language learning in the classroom -- 1964-1996 takes us through what the Blake calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts.
A Road Less Travelled: Critical literacy and language learning in the classroom -- 1964-1996 takes us through what the Blake calls the "jaunty journey...
A Road Less Travelled: Critical literacy and language learning in the classroom -- 1964-1996 takes us through what the Blake calls the "jaunty journey" of the English/English Language Arts.
A Road Less Travelled: Critical literacy and language learning in the classroom -- 1964-1996 takes us through what the Blake calls the "jaunty journey...
