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Literary Pathways: Selecting Books to Support New Readers
reviewed by Janet Hickman - 2003 Title: Literary Pathways: Selecting Books to Support New Readers
Author(s): Barbara Peterson Publisher: Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH ISBN: 0325001642 , Pages: 240, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com In her foreword to Literary Pathways, Charlotte Huck
says: “I wish every school librarian had [the
author’s] knowledge of how children take on the reading
process, and I wish every teacher had [her] knowledge of the wide
range of books that will enable a child to become successful in
learning to read.” The hallmark of this book is its
combination of these two bodies of knowledge in the service of a
particular group of readers.
Barbara Peterson has unique qualifications for this
effort. She began her career as a public librarian and later
trained as a Reading Recovery teacher, learning to pay detailed
attention to the experiences of individual children taking on the
complex tasks of beginning reading. This work led her to
focus on text complexity in a seminal 1988 Ph.D. dissertation at
Ohio State University, Characteristics of Texts That Support
Beginning Readers. Subsequently, Peterson became
teacher-librarian at Tully Elementary Accelerated Magnet School in
Tucson. There she met regularly with the group of second
graders dubbed Reading... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Janet Hickman
The Ohio State University E-mail Author JANET HICKMAN is Associate Professor in the program in Language, Literacy, and Culture at Ohio State University. Her research concerns the areas of children’s response to literature and the role of literature in the classroom. She is also an author of novels for children, the most recent of which is Ravine (Greenwillow, 2002).
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