Listening to my readers
Exploring the ‘Personal literacies landscapes’ of beginner readers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6426319 |
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| Authors | Gillian Mary Smith (0000-0002-4964-3985, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 288-300 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Studies of Childhood (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-6106 • E-ISSN: 2043-6106 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20436106241260888 |
| OpenAlex | W4400954202 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
This study takes a more holistic look at reading support, to explore what else is happening in this teaching and learning context, beyond the acquisition of a more secure knowledge of decoding skills. Children are deemed in need of a reading support intervention when their literacy skills are assessed as being significantly below the levels expected by their school for their age, and these difficulties can often negatively impact both upon their confidence as a learner, and also upon their enjoyment of literacy activities in school. Confidence and enjoyment in literacy learning is tacitly presumed to re-emerge once these skills are gained, boosted by the intervention’s focus on the cognitive technical decoding skills. This can often lead to less choice and agency in their reading activities than their peers enjoy. However, the findings of this study suggest that building in activities that promote enjoyment in literacy learning, confidence as a learner and a sense of agency do not detract from the cognitive gains, but seem to boost them. A key aspect of this is linking reading support activities to the literacy activities that the learner enjoys at home as well as in school. This is theorised as an individual’s ‘Personal Literacies Landscape’: all the different texts that they have seen or heard, even if they cannot access them independently, that have contributed to their ways of being in the world
Active listening · Audio equipment · Linguistics · Literacy · Pedagogy · Reading (process · Sociology · Communication · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Themes in Literature Analysis
Cross-cultural approaches to literacy
Listening to Children
The Enchantment of Modern Life
Literacy in American Lives
Foundations of Game-Based Learning
Rereading “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies”
Using vignettes in educational research
Discourses in Place
Porous boundaries
Funds of Identity
More-Than-Human Literacies in Early Childhood
Ordinary Affects
Academic self-regulation as a function of age
No-one would sleep if we didn’t have books!”
Mixed emotions
The Capaciousness of No
Sociology and the New Materialism
Literacy-as-event
Moments of Teaching and Learning in a Children's Hospital
The Aesthetics of Everyday Literacies
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