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Vygotsky in the Classroom: Mediated Literacy Instruction and Assessment » (1st Edition)

Authors: Lisbeth Dixon-Krauss
ISBN-13: 9780801315909, ISBN-10: 0801315905
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: October 1995
Edition: 1st Edition

	Preface
Pt. I	Classroom Instruction	1
	Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky: Background of the Scholar/Teacher's Life and Work	1
	Biographical Sketch	2
	Overview of Part I	3
	Notes	5
Ch. 1	Vygotsky's Sociohistorical Perspective on Learning and Its Application to Western Literacy Instruction	7
Ch. 2	Emerging Readers and Writers	25
Ch. 3	Spontaneous and Scientific Concepts in Content-Area Instruction	43
Ch. 4	Book Club: The Influence of a Vygotskian Perspective on a Literature-Based Reading Program	59
Ch. 5	Collaborative Learning and Thinking: The Vygotskian Approach	77
Ch. 6	Vygotsky and Writing: Children Using Language to Learn and Learning from the Child's Language What to Teach	93
Ch. 7	The Concept of Activity	111
Pt. II	Classroom Assessment	125
Ch. 8	Vygotsky and Multicultural Assessment and Instruction	133
Ch. 9	Vygotsky and At-Risk Readers: Assessment and Instructional Implications	149
Ch. 10	Using Portfolios to Mediate Literacy Instruction and Assessment	161
Ch. 11	Vygotsky in the Future: Technology as a Mediation Tool for Literacy Instruction	175
	Glossary	191
	References	197
	Contributors	215
	Index	217