1. The child, the text and the teacher: reading primers and reading instruction.
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Patterson, AnnetteJoyce, Cormack, PhillipAnton, and Green, WilliamCharles
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READING , *READING (Early childhood) , *READING (Primary) , *HISTORY of the Americas , *READING research , *HISTORY ,BRITISH history - Abstract
From the late sixteenth century, in response to the problem of how best to teach children to read, a variety of texts, such as primers, spellers and readers were produced in England for vernacular instruction. This paper describes how these materials were used by teachers to develop, first, a specific religious understanding according to the stricture of the time and, second, a moral reading practice that provided the child with a guide to secular conduct. The analysis focuses on the use of these texts as a productive means for shaping the child-reader in the context of newly emerging educational spaces, which fostered a particular, morally formative relation among teacher, child and text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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