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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kress, Gunther R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Elementary).

Reading (Elementary).

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

English language.

Literacy.

Children--Language.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Include bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-77402-8

9786610141029

1-134-77403-6

1-280-14102-6

0-203-99269-5

9780203992692

OCLC:

475942103