Number 51 (1986)

Originally published as:   Notes on Literacy. Number 51 (1986). Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics. © 1986 Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc.

Complete Table of Contents

Literacy: Reading, obviously, but writing, too, by Jim Meyer

1. Overview of writing

2. Oral discourse

A. Interaction between speaker and listener

B. Based on proverbs

C. Based on addition

D. Social function

3. Written discourse

4. Thinking and writing

5. Further reading

Back Matter

References

Teaching writing to the Inupiat Eskimos ^*, by Norma Stevens

Primers for a syllabary writing system, by Ronald C. Morren

1. Introduction

2. Writing systems

A. Definitions

B. Syllabary system examined

3. Current use of the Cree syllabary

4. Why use the Cree syllabary for literacy

5. Cree primer development

6. Recommendations

Back Matter

References

Review: The foundations of literacy, by W. Terry Whalin

Transition idea: English-to-Stoney newspaper lessons, by Warren Harbeck and Mary Anna Harbeck