Book Review: Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School, by Dyson
By: Rebekah Fassler
Publication:
The Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 2
Date: Spring 1995
Summary: Rebekah Fassler reviews Social Worlds of Children Learning to Write in an Urban Primary School, by Anne Haas Dyson, which presents case studies of six African-American children in a San Francisco Bay Area school. Over a two-year period, Dyson and her research assistants observed and audiotaped the African American focal children's interaction with peers and teachers during their daily composing time and during other classroom literacy events. Dyson analyzes the particular social purposes of the children's use of language and gives specific guidelines for teachers of minority children.
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