Learning to Be Literate: Children Make the Connections.

Turbill, Jan

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ERIC Number: EJ368581

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Publication Date: 1987

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Learning to Be Literate: Children Make the Connections.

Turbill, Jan

Australian Journal of Reading, v10 n4 p217-25 Nov 1987

Focuses on how children learn different written registers. Asserts that teachers must immerse children in a variety of texts to experience different registers of language and make explicit the purpose of registers, the role audience plays, and how information is organized in different registers. (MM)

Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Expository Writing, Grade 2, Nonfiction, Primary Education, Reading Writing Relationship, Student Writing Models, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Writing Processes, Writing Skills

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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