Atkinson 1988

Atkinson, Joy. 1988. "Review of 'The acquisition of literacy: Ethnographic perspectives' by Schieffelin and Gilmore 1986." READ: Promoting Literacy and Literature. (Also reviewed by Pagel 1992.) Interest level: specialist.

Lists the four parts as follows:

• Part l discusses informal literary events; adults reading to young children in mainstream and nonmainstream America. Events with the working class, noneducated mothers, other adult-child interactions around books, and interactions in Sunday School.
• Part 2 shows how children acquire an orientation to literacy and the skills to achieve it.
• Part 3 focuses on success and failure at school in regard to literacy development. Discusses problems of discontinuity between home and school.
• Part 4 shows the impact of literacy on the social order of Western Samoa and Morocco.

The reviewer recommends the book.

• Bibliography module: Atkinson 1988
• In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): A
• In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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