Living Literacy: The Human Foundations of Speaking, Writing and Reading (Education Series)
Michael Rose makes the case that the very life and nature of language are breaking down under the pressures of modern society. In Living Literacy, he attributes these threats to inappropriate electronic media and to fundamental flaws in modern educational systems, while examining what really works in teaching and preparing for literacy.
Living Literacy investigates the nature of literacy and how it relates to child development. It explores how teachers and parents can prepare for the transition to literacy through conversation, story, song, and play, followed by relevant and living ways to introduce reading and writing formally.
C O N T E N T S:
Part 1 Seeing the Picture
The Great Divide
What is Literacy?
Literacy in the World Today
The Emergence of the Alphabet
Lessons of Development
Part 2 Making the difference
Tuning to the Mother Tongue
Animating the Word
First Writing and Reading
Developing Literacy as Faculty
Further Suggestions for Practice
Literacy and Learning Differences
Part 3 Closing the Book
The Three Persons of Literacy
Harvesting the Word
The Future
Appendices
Bibliography
Resources
Customer Reviews
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