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Learning to be literate : more than a single story / Patricia Paugh, Deborah MacPhee ; foreword by Rachael Gabriel.

by Paugh, Patricia C., 1956- author.

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New York, NY : Norton Professional Books, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Reading (Elementary)

Language arts (Elementary)

9781324020011 (paperback) :

1324020016 (paperback)

Norton books in education.

xxxi, 184 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Becoming literate in today's society -- Learning the codes -- Reading and writing with purpose -- Building competence and confidence -- Engaging critically with texts -- Teaching reading is a political act.

There is not one right way to teach a child to read. Recent media stories about education have featured the "Science of Reading," whose proponents typically present the systematic teaching of phonics as a one-size-fits-all method that guarantees reading success for all students. But as literacy scholars Patricia Paugh and Deborah MacPhee demonstrate, the decoding of words is only one of many skills that are central to an effective early literacy education. In Learning to Be Literate, they present a four-part framework for active literacy learning that eschews oppositional arguments about different approaches, and instead situates children as meaning makers: the whole point of being literate. There is no single or simple solution that will fit every child. But by using the ALL framework to inform instruction, educators can help young learners think deeply about ideas and language at the same time as they learn to work out the sounds and symbol systems of language.

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