The Brothers and Sisters Learn to Write: Popular Literacies in Childhood and School Cultures

(Part of the Language and Literacy Series)

by Anne Haas Dyson

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Building on her groundbreaking work in Writing Superheroes , Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of "textual toys" from children's lives--church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays--upon school learning and writing. Wonderfully rich portraits of five African American first-graders demonstrate how children's imaginative use of wider cultural...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807742805

ISBN13:9780807742808

Release Date:December 2003

Publisher:Teachers College Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"

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Education Education & Reference Language Arts

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