Essays into literacy : selected papers and some afterthoughts /

Smith, Frank 1928-

Essays into literacy : selected papers and some afterthoughts / Frank Smith - Exeter, N.H. : Heinemann Educational, c1983. - ix, 157 p. : 22 cm.

Contents
The politics of ignorance
Twelve Easy ways to make learning to read difficult
The role of prediction in reading
Learning to read by reading
Making sense of reading and of reading instruction
Use of language
Conflicting approaches to reading research and instruction
The language Arts and the learner's mind
Myths of writing
The unspeakable habit
Demonstrations, Engagement and sensitivity
The choice between teachers and programs
A metaphor for literacy- creating words or shunting information?

Includes index and Bibliography

0435082051


Reading
Literacy
Language arts

LB1050

808.4 / SMI