ED248483 CS007772
Title: Awakening to Literacy. The University of Victoria Symposium
on Children's Response to a Literate Environment: Literacy before
Schooling (Victoria, British Columbia, October 1982).
Author(s): Goelman, Hillel, Ed.; And Others
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 1984
ISBN: 0-435-08207-8
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 70 Court St.,
Portsmouth, NH 03801 ($15.00).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Collected works--Proceedings (021)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Hampshire
Journal Announcement: RIEFEB1985
The result of an international symposium conducted in Canada, this
book contains articles by experts in the fields of anthropology,
linguistics, psychology, sociology, and education on the subject of
preschool children and literacy. The book is divided into three
sections dealing with literacy and culture, learning to be literate,
and literacy and cognition. The 15 articles discuss the following
topics: (1) learning to read culturally, or literacy before schooling;
(2) social and institutional influences on the development and
practice of literacy; (3) families as environments for literacy; (4)
the achievement of preschool literacy for mother and child; (5) Puerto
Rican kindergarten children learning literacy through play; (6) the
child as teacher; (7) the development of literacy; (8) the
significance of reading to young children for literacy development;
(9) literacy at home and at school; (10) the leap from computer
procedure to reading ability; (11) the creative achievement of
literacy; (12) the underlying logic of literacy development; (13)
speech and writing, and modes of learning; (14) oral language
antecedents of literacy; and (15) language, mind, and reading. The
book concludes with commentaries on the nature and events of the
symposium, and on its implications. (HTH)
Descriptors: *Cognitive Development; Cognitive Style; *Cultural
Influences; *Early Reading; Family Relationship; Kindergarten;
Language Acquisition; Learning Processes; *Literacy; Microcomputers;
Oral Language; *Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Reading
Aloud to Others; Reading Instruction; Social Influences; Writing
(Composition)
