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TEACHING THE DIMENSIONS OF LITERACY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 January 2008

Mary M. Juzwik
Mary M. Juzwik
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Michigan State University
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TEACHING THE DIMENSIONS OF LITERACY.Stephen B. Kucer and Cecilia Silva. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006. Pp. xv + 406. $49.95 paper.

Kucer and Silva's work is a companion volume to Kucer's (2005) earlier volume, Dimensions of Literacy: A Conceptual Base for Teaching Reading and Writing In School Settings, now in its second edition. In this earlier volume, Kucer argued that literacy should be understood in all its dimensions—cognitive, linguistic, sociocultural, and developmental—and that to reduce our understanding of literacy to any one dimension alone is to lack wisdom about its total nature. Whereas the previous volume offers a theoretical exposition of these four dimensions of literacy (i.e., content knowledge for teachers), this new work provides answers to the question “Well, now that I am equipped with a multidimensional understanding of literacy, what shall I do on Monday morning?” (i.e., pedagogical content knowledge; Shulman, 1986).

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 108 - 110
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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Kucer, S. (2005). Dimensions of literacy: A conceptual base for teaching reading and writing in school settings (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Shulman, L. (1986). Those who understand: Knowledge growth in teaching. Educational Researcher, 15, 4–14.CrossRefGoogle Scholar