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• ISBN: 0801315905
• ISBN: 9780801315909
• Physical Description: xiv, 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Publisher: White Plains, N.Y. : Longman, ©1996.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Classroom instruction. Vygotsky's sociohistorical perspective on learning and its application to western literacy instruction / Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss -- Emerging readers and writers / Martha Combs -- Spontaneous and scientific concepts in content-area instruction / Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss -- Book club : the influence of a Vygotskian perspective on a literature-based reading program / Susan I. McMahon -- Collaborative learning and thinking : the Vygotskian approach / Clara M. Jennings and Xu Di.

Vygotsky and writing : children using language to learn and learning from the child's language what to teach / Marian Matthews -- The concept of activity / Patricia Ashton -- Classroom assessment. Vygotsky and multicultural assessment and instruction / Nile V. Stanley -- Vygotsky and at-risk readers : assessment and instructional implications / Sherry Kragler -- Using portfolios to mediate literacy instruction and assessment / Lyn Rothwell Wagner and Dana Brock.

Vygotsky in the future : technology as a mediation tool for literacy instruction / Joe M. Peters.

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Vygotskiĭ, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934.
Vygotskiĭ, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934
Language arts.
Language arts > Ability testing.
Learning, Psychology of.
Constructivism (Education)
Literacy.
Constructivism (Education)
Language arts.
Language arts > Ability testing.
Learning, Psychology of.
Literacy.