ED307583 CS009658

Title: Classrooms and Literacy.
Author(s) Bloome, David, Ed.
Pages: 422
Publication Date: 1989
ISBN: 0-89391-506-8
Available from: Document Not Available from EDRS.
Availability: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 355 Chestnut St., Norwood, NJ 07648 ($32.50).
Language: English
Document Type: Book (010); Opinion papers (120); Reports--Research (143)
Geographic Source: U.S.; New Jersey
Journal Announcement: RIENOV1989

This book is intended for researchers and teachers interested in literacy and concerned about classrooms as a context for literacy activity and learning. The book contains the following chapters: (1)"What It Means to be Literate about Classrooms" (Lyn Corno); (2)"Beyond Access: An Ethnographic Study of Reading and Writing in a Seventh Grade Classroom" (David Bloome); (3) "Reading Ability Groups as Literacy Communities" (Hilda Borko and Margaret Eisenhart); (4)
"Sociality and Cognition in Collaborative Computer Writing" (James L. Heap); (5) "Describing Classroom Storybook Reading" (William H. Teale and others); (6) "Text Comprehension in Functional Task Domains" (Carl Frederiksen); (7) "Giving Formal Definitions: An Oral Language Correlate of School Literacy" (Catherine Snow and others); (8)"Exploring the Cognitive Consequences of Variations in the Social Fabric of Classroom Literacy Events" (Robert J. Tierney and Theresa Rogers); (9) "The Acquisition of Literacy in Religious and Secular Schools" (Thomas Eisemon and Martin Hallett); (10) "Social Semiotics: A New Model for Literacy Education" (Jay L. Lemke); and (11) "Literacy as Conversation: Classroom Talk as Text Building" (Patricia Stock and Jay Robinson). (MS)

Descriptors: Ability Grouping; *Classroom Environment; Classroom Research; Computer Assisted Instruction; Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 7; *Literacy; *Literacy Education; Oral Language; Reading Ability; Reading Comprehension; Reading Writing Relationship; Semiotics; Social Environment
Identifiers: Collaborative Learning