Clay, Marie M. <br/><br/>
Becoming literate :  the construction of inner control / 
Marie M. Clay. 
 - 366 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>A framework of issues -- Literacy before schooling -- School entry: a transition -- Oral language support for early literacy -- Introducing children to print at school -- Attention and the twin puzzles of test reading: serial order and hierarchical order -- Attention to conepts about print -- Problem-solving using information of more than one kind -- Choosing texts: contrived texts, story book texts and transitional texts -- Progress on the first reading books -- Behaviours signal a developing inner control -- Visual perception strategies: one kind of inner control -- The development of processing strategies -- Extending the inner control. 
<br/><br/> Children are taught about stories, words, letters and sounds in many different programmes in their first years of literacy instruction. In this book Clay argues that underlying the progress of successful children there is another level of competencies being learned. Successful readers show a gradual control over how a reader or writer can work with print even though they learn in very different programmes. This inner strategic control is what failing readers do not seem to build. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0868632791 9780868632797 0435085743 9780435085742 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Reading (Primary)<br/>Reading (Preschool)<br/>Language arts (Primary)<br/>Reading, Psychology of<br/>Reading (Elementary)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>LB1525 .C57 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>418.4019