Batman Books: Homemade First Readers.
1976; Wiley; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1936-2714
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Gender, and Advertising
ResumoMY FIRST YEAR of teaching. 1968. Twenty-s ven first graders. We all shared one com mon emotion: anxiety. Fresh from their families, the children had never gone to school before. Twenty-four of them were new immigrants from Santo Do mingo, Puerto Rico, Taiwan, or Hong Kong. Their English, after a week of school, consisted of Teacher, bathroom and Teach er, he hit They marched in that first day of school with shining faces, new shirts, and schoolbags filled with notebooks, pencils, and expectations. Older siblings had told them that they were going to learn how to read and do math. I'm not sure they understood quite what that meant, but I did, and those were some of the ex pectations I had for them as well. So back to that anxiety. How do you teach reading? I reviewed often the various methods I had learned: phonics, language-experi ence, basais, individualized, organ ic; and I knew that no way ex cluded another. But I was stymied. My struggle was trying to find a way into the reading process for ev ery child?from Juan who couldn't hold a pencil, to Miguel who knew the names of all the letters and quickly learned to read the names of everyone in the class. It was on the subway one day (my best les son planning was often done to the deadening roar of the subway) that the idea of Batman Books came to me. This article will briefly de scribe what led me to create the Batman Books, the thinking that went into them, and how they've been used by myself and others. The major task for the first few months of school was to expand vo
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