The reading crisis : why poor children fall behind /
How severe is the literacy gap in our schools? Why does the nine-year-old child from a culturally disadvantaged background so often fall victim to the fourth-grade slump? Although the cognitive abilities of these "children at risk" may be consistent with the norm, their literacy developmen...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1990
Cambridge, MA : [2022] Cambridge, Mass. : 1990 |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Literacy and Language among Low-Income Children
- 2 The Children, Their Schools, and Their Families
- 3 Reading Development
- 4 Writting Development
- 5 Language Development
- 6 Interrelations among Reading, Writing, and Language
- 7 Classroom Instruction and Literacy Environments
- 8 Home Influences on Literacy and Language
- 9 Influenec on the Lower and Higher Grades
- 10 Where Do We Go from Here?
- Epilogue: Persistent Questions
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Literacy and Language among Low-Income Children
- 2 The Children, Their Schools, and Their Families
- 3 Reading Development
- 4 Writing Development
- 5 Language Development
- 6 Interrelations among Reading, Writing, and Language
- 7 Classroom Instruction and Literacy Environments
- 8 Home Influences on Literacy and Language
- 9 Influences on the Lower and Higher Grades
- 10 Where Do We Go from Here?
- EPILOGUE Persistent Questions
- APPENDIX A Samples of Narrative Writing Representing Average Holistic Ratings and Production: Students' Handwriting
- APPENDIX B Samples of Expository Writing Representing Average Holistic Ratings and Production: Students' Handwriting
- References
- Index
- Appendix A Samples of Narrative Writing Representing Average Holistic Ratings and Production: Students' HandwritingAppendix B Samples of Expository Writing Representing Average Holistic Ratings and Production: Students' Handwriting
- References
- Index