explain ways in which children are socialized into reading and writing scripts and whether literacy practices in the home are further supported in the school

areas of discussing the topic are related to the course book, units 1,2 and unit 3 specially pages 116-117. (i’ll send it to the selected tutor)

IMPORTANT GUIDELINES:

1. clarify “literacy practice” as a term.

2. explain the universality or relativeness of “literacy practice”.

3. home literacy practice and relation to mainstream school literacy practice.

4. Shirley Brice Heath and social perspectives on literacy.

recommended bibliography:

• Cook-Gumperz, J. (1986). The Social Construction of Literacy, CUP: Cambridge. Google Scholar • Edwards, Martyn (2012). Literacy practices: using the literacies for learning in further education framework to analyse literacy practices on a post-compulsory education and training teacher education programme. Student Engagement and Experience Journal, 1 (1), 1-10. • Heath, Shirley Brice. (1983). Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511841057 • Oxenham, J. (1980). Literacy: Writing, Reading and Social Organisation, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. Google Scholar • Street, B. (1995). Social Literacies: Critical perspectives on Literacy in Development, Ethnography and Education, Longman: London. Google Scholar