I Already Know How to Read: A Child's View of Literacy
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0435072269 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Book Review from Educators' Perspectives This book is very valuable for educators as it is written from an educator's perspective. Martens, an experienced kindergarten teacher, observes her child as she progresses through literacy development. Her observations are a witness to the power of watching children learn.Martens' description of . "3 1/2 stars is an accurate review for this work. I read this book years ago. I wonder why it is deemed okay for a professor to study her own child and apply that to the perspective of millions of children learning literacy. Your child is learning about literacy from an adult with 3-3 1/2 stars is an accurate review for this work. J.Marie I read this book years ago. I wonder why it is deemed okay for a professor to study her own child and apply that to the perspective of millions of children learning literacy. Your child is learning about literacy from an adult with 3-4 college degrees. Of course she is already in the literacy club. college degrees. Of course she is already in the literacy club. 1/2 stars is an accurate review for this work." according to J.Marie. I read this book years ago. I wonder why it is deemed okay for a professor to study her own child and apply that to the perspective of millions of children learning literacy. Your child is learning about literacy from an adult with 3 1/2 stars is an accurate review for this work. I read this book years ago. I wonder why it is deemed okay for a professor to study her own child and apply that to the perspective of millions of children learning literacy. Your child is learning about literacy from an adult with 3-3 1/2 stars is an accurate review for this work. J.Marie I read this book years ago. I wonder why it is deemed okay for a professor to study her own child and apply that to the perspective of millions of children learning literacy. Your child is learning about literacy from an adult with 3-4 college degrees. Of course she is already in the literacy club. college degrees. Of course she is already in the literacy club. -3 1/2 stars is an accurate review for this work. J.Marie I read this book years ago. I wonder why it is deemed okay for a professor to study her own child and apply that to the perspective of millions of children learning literacy. Your child is learning about literacy from an adult with 3-4 college degrees. Of course she is already in the literacy club. college degrees. Of course she is already in the literacy club. A Customer said This excellent book teaches parents topics about literacy. I feel like this book changed my life. I now have a new perspective of everything, especially reading. I know Prisca and Sarah well and I understand them fully and incoherently. I love this book and I'm sure it will change your life too.
The implications for the classroom are extraordinary-as Sarah taught her mother to see, her story will help practicing and preservice teachers to see as well.. Martens recognizes that children's opportunities and experiences with print differ. In I Already Know How to Read Martens documents how Sarah, through meaningful literacy experiences in her social community, understood literacy and invented reading and writing for herself. When Sarah at age four responded "I already know how to read" to the suggestion that this was something she would learn in kindergarten, Martens realized children's perceptions of literacy and of themselves as learners may differ from those of adults. Numerous reading and writing samples, organized around broad research questions, present Sarah as an inquirer who actively constructs her understanding of literacy and ways to be literate. But by looking closely at one child's literacy development, we learn how to see and understand the literacy development of others. Prisca Martens's most powerful teacher has been her daughter Sarah. Over the three yea
. Prisca Martens is an assistant professor of language education at Indiana University, Indianapolis. Martens researches, publishes, and conducts presentations and workshops in the areas of early literacy, reading, miscue analysis, and retrospective miscue analysis
“Based on a three-year observation of her daughter's perception of reading and writing and her "ways to being literate," a professor of language education offers an enlightened view of what literacy is, how children learn literacy, and some unusual implications for kindergarten teachers.”–Young Children