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Curriculum & Instruction EDCI Where Teachers Come to Learn

Dr Josh Thompson

Josh_Thompson@TAMU-Commerce.edu

903-468-8627

EDCI 690 / RDG 690 Spring 2008

Background Reading List

Eighteen References as of 01/17/2008 

Baron, N. S. (1990). Pigeon-birds and rhyming words: The role of parents in language learning. Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics.

Bloome, D., Carter, S. P., Christian, B. M., Otto, S. & Shuart-Faris, N. (2005). Discourse analysis and the study of classroom language and literacy events – A microethnographic perspective. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Cazden, C. B. (2001). Classroom discourse: The language of teaching and learning (2nd ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Dickinson, D.K., & Tabors, P.O. (2001). Beginning literacy with language: Young children learning at home and school. Baltimore: Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co.

Dickinson, D. K., & Tabors, P. O. (March 2002). "Fostering Language and Literacy in Classrooms and Homes." Young Children, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 10-18.

Hall, N., Larson, J., & Marsh, J. (2003). Handbook of early childhood literacy. London: Sage Publications.

Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co.

Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (1999). Social world of children learning to talk. Baltimore: Paul H. Brooks Publishing Co.

Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hymes, D. (1968). “The ethnography of speaking.” In J. Fishman (Ed.), Readings in the sociology of language, pp. 99-137. The Hague: Mouton.

Hymes, D. (1972). “On communicative competence.” In J. B. Pride & J. Holmes (Eds.), Sociolinguistics, pp. 269-293. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.

Lindfors, J. W. (1987). Children’s language and learning (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

Lindfors, J. W. (1999). Children’s inquiry: Using language to make sense of the world. NY: Teachers College Press.

MacWhinney, B. (1995). The CHILDES project: Tools for analyzing talk. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

MacWhinney, B. (1998). Introduction to the CHILDES System. Available online at http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/intro/childes.pdf and http://childes.psy.cmu.edu/intro/

MacWhinney, B. (1999). “Preface.” In B. MacWhinney (Ed.), The emergence of language, (pp. ix-xvii). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

Michaels, S. (1986). “Narrative presentations: An oral preparation for literacy.” In J. Cook-Gumperz (Ed.), The social construction of literacy (pp. 94-116). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Montessori, M. (1949/1995). The Absorbent Mind. New York: Owl Books.