Learning to Read in a New Language: Making Sense of Words and Worlds

✍ Scribed by Professor Eve Gregory

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Building upon the ideas proposed in Making Sense of a New World, this Second Edition widens its scope, arguing that policies designed for ‘monolingual minds’ be limited, while those favoring methodologies which put plurilingualism in the centre of initial literacy tuition are promoted. This book offers a practical reading program -- an ‘Inside-Out’ (starting from experience) and ‘Outside-In’ (starting from literature) approach to teaching which can be used with individuals, small groups, and whole classes. It uses current sociocultural theory, while drawing on examples of children from a variety of different countries who are engaged in learning to read nursery rhymes and songs, storybooks, letters, the Bible, and the Qur’an, in languages they do not speak fluently.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of figures......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
1 Setting the Scene......Page 18
Part 1 Learning to read differently......Page 34
Introduction: cultures, codes and contexts......Page 36
2 The social context: important practices......Page 44
3 Family and community contexts: important others......Page 88
4 The context of the mind: important knowledge......Page 120
5 Using the same clues differently......Page 139
Part 2 From theory to practice......Page 170
Introduction: making sense of words and worlds......Page 172
6 Starting with the word: the ‘Inside-Out’ approach in action......Page 176
7 Starting with the world: the ‘Outside-In’ approach to reading......Page 199
8 Linking the ‘Inside-Out’ and ‘Outside-In’ approaches: ideas for groups and classes......Page 223
9 Epilogue......Page 231
Glossary......Page 237
Bibliography......Page 242
Index......Page 253