Apprenticeship in Literacy: Transitions Across Reading and Writing

Drawing on authentic classroom examples - student writing samples, class schedules, photographs, and rich transcriptions of teaching and learning interactions - the authors illustrate instruction that is aimed at children's learning zones. As children become more competent readers and writers, the instructional interactions are adjusted to accommodate their higher-level learning. Here is a wealth of in-depth information, specific strategies, and organizational formats in literacy areas such as: - principles of apprenticeship literacy; - learning to read from a cognitive apprenticeship approach, including the roles of read-aloud, familiar reading, and shared reading; - guided reading,including flexible grouping, reading and writing links, and instructional interactions that emphasize problem-solving strategies; - helping children develop writing strategies through interactive writing, writing aloud, and revising and editing transactions; - transitions in children's independent writing, including their relationship to modeling and coaching demonstrations during assisted writing; - helping children acquire phonological knowledge, including activities that guide children in manipulating letters, sounds, and spelling patterns; - a typical day of putting it all together in two apprenticeship settings: Angela's first-grade classroom and Carla's Title I reading program; - using school-based professional literacy teams to support teachers in developing an effective literacy program for their children.

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Author: Linda J. Dorn, Cathy French, and Tammy Jones
ISBN: 1571100881
ISBN13: 9781571100887
Publication Date: 1998
Pages: 192