TITLE

New avenues to literacy

AUTHOR(S)

Cairney, Trevor H.

PUB. DATE

March 1997

SOURCE

Educational Leadership;Mar1997, Vol. 54 Issue 6, p76

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Asserts the need for schools to broaden their literacy efforts to help children negotiate diversities and new developments in the world. Meaning of literacy; Forms of literacy encountered by a typical preschooler; Need to seek options for developing children's literacy abilities.

ACCESSION #

9703145842

 

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