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Effective Beginning Literacy Instruction: Dialectical, Scaffolded, and Contextualized

Michael Pressley

Ruth Wharton-McDonald

Jennifer Mistretta

University at Albany, State University of New York

Our most fundamental assumptions are that there are some very good elementary-level literacy teachers, and much about effective literacy elementary literacy education can be learned by studying their teaching. Such a perspective contrasts with alternative approaches to the understanding and development of pedagogy, the most popular of which have been philosophical analyses (Noddings, 1995). Contemporary language arts, in particular, has been dominated ...

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