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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED298432 AUTHOR: Davidson, Jane L., Ed.
TITLE: Counterpoint and Beyond: A Response to "Becoming a
Nation of Readers."
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1988
NOTE: 115 p.
AVAILABILITY: National Council of Teachers of English, 1111
Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801 (Stock No. 08768-015, $4.95
member, $6.25 nonmember).
ABSTRACT: Elaborated by a group of teacher educators and
reading researchers, this monograph serves as a forum for
responses to the federally sponsored 1985 report, "Becoming
a Nation of Readers." It consists of the following essays,
listed here with their authors: (1) "Reading Instruction
and Underlying Metaphors in 'Becoming a Nation of Readers'"
(David Bloome and others); (2) "Emerging Literacy: What We
Know Should Determine What We Do" (Jane L. Davidson and
others); (3) "Nonmainstream Groups: Questions and Research
Directions" (Jerrie Cobb Scott); (4) "Beyond Phonics to
Language-Centered Learning" (Mary Anne Hall); (5) "A
Question of Identity, or 'The Prince Was What?'" (Karla F.
C. Holloway); (6) "Focusing on Meaning in Beginning Reading
Instruction" (Connie A. Bridge); (7) "The Treatment of
Literature and Minorities in 'Becoming a Nation of
Readers'" (Rudine Sims Bishop); (8) "Extending Literacy:
Extending the Perspective" (Harold L. Herber and Joan
Nelson-Herber); (9) "A Principal's Perspective" (Bonnie C.
Wilkerson); and (10) "Positive and Negative Choices: Impact
on Curricula" (Gay Su Pinnell). (MS)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Higher
Education; Minority-Groups; Phonics-; Principals-; Reader
Response; Teacher-Attitudes
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *English-Instruction; *Literacy-;
*Literature-; *Reading-Instruction
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