June 2013
Beginner
416 pages
14h 39m
English
15
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Effective Beginning Literacy Instruction: Dialectical, Scaffolded, and Contextualized
Michael Pressley
Ruth Wharton-McDonald
Jennifer Mistretta
University at Albany, State University of New York
Our most fundamental assumptions are that there are some very good elementary-level literacy teachers, and much about effective literacy elementary literacy education can be learned by studying their teaching. Such a perspective contrasts with alternative approaches to the understanding and development of pedagogy, the most popular of which have been philosophical analyses (Noddings, 1995). Contemporary language arts, in particular, has been dominated ...
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