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The Role of Knowledge in Early Literacy

Susan B. Neuman

In this essay, the author reviews Beating the Odds in Teaching All Children to Read by Barbara Taylor, P. David Pearson, Kathleen Clark, and Sharon Walpole; The Contexts of Comprehension by Laura Smolkin and Carol Donovan; The Interplay of Firsthand and Text-Based Investigations in Science Education by Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar and Shirley Magnusson; and The Scarcity of Informational Text in First Grade by Nell Duke.

Abstract from Neuman, S.B. (2001). The Role of Knowledge in Early Literacy. Reading Research Quarterly, 36(4), 468–475. doi: 10.1598/RRQ.36.4.6