Learning about Punctuation (The Language and Education Library, 9) - Softcover

9780435072094: Learning about Punctuation (The Language and Education Library, 9)

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ISBN 10: 0435072099 ISBN 13: 9780435072094

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1996

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Before more efficient and effective ways to teach punctuation can be developed, it must be understood how beginning readers and writers make sense of the subject. "Learning About Punctuation" seeks to determine what the evidence tells us. This book is divided into clusters of articles. In the first, Nigel Hall offers a substantial overview and review of some of the issues and research pertaining to how children use punctuation. A cluster of three chapters follows, in which Yetta Goodman, Prisca Martens, Holly Anderson and Sandra Wilde focus primarily on the classroom use of writing by young children. The next two chapters look at teachers: their experiences with punctuation and their beliefs about how it should be taught. The final cluster reveals more intense studies of particular areas of punctuation knowledge and development.

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From the Back Cover

This timely book is the first ever to address the issues associated with how people, and especially children, make sense of punctuation. The first chapter offers a detailed overview of some of the major issues. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 the authors offer accounts of how children develop understanding of punctuation. Chapter 5 deals with teachers' experiences of, attitudes towards, and beliefs about the teaching and learning of punctuation. Chapter 6 contains a detailed analysis of one lesson in which punctuation was the main feature and explores its consequences for the children's use of punctuation in their writing. In Chapter 7 the author examines how a deaf child learned to punctuate and raises important issues about the relationship between oral language and punctuation. Chapter 8 contains a rare account of how young children use punctuation when reading. Finally, Chapter 9 offers an account of the problems of adult basic writers; difficulties which have a strong relationship with those faced with young writers.

About the Author

Nigel Hall is a Reader in Literacy Education and Anne Robinson is a lecturer in the Didsbury School of Education at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Together they direct `The Punctuation Project' and both authors are known internationally for their books on early literacy, especially early writing.

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