Before writing : rethinking the paths to literacy /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kress, Gunther R.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Description:	xxii, 175 p., [7] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Language arts (Elementary) Reading (Elementary) English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Literacy. Children -- Language. Children -- Language. English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Language arts (Elementary) Literacy. Reading (Elementary)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4789014

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ISBN:	0415138043 0415138051 (pbk.)
Notes:	Include bibliographical references (p. [170]-171) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1. Literacy, Identity and Futures
Chapter 2. 'My Gawd, I Made It like Australia' Making Meaning in Many Media
Chapter 3. Making Sense of the World the Seagulls Are Reading the Newspaper'
Chapter 4. Drawing Letters and Writing Dinosaurs Children's Early Engagement with Print
Chapter 5. 'You Made It like a Crocodile' a Theory of Children's Meaning-Making
Chapter 6. Literacy and Theories of Language
Colour Plates
Chapter 7. Teaching Literacy, Learning Literacy
Chapter 8. Futures
Sources and Contexts
Bibliography
Index

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