Maybe because there are too many kids in the classroom. I have 34 this year!
Pete Farruggio
>Point taken. But why is it, I wonder, that the "teaching" approach to
>joint bookreading spills over into the parent-child interactions rather
>than the "parenting" approach spilling over into the classroom?
>
>Gordon
>
>On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Ellice A Forman wrote:
>
>> Gordon Wells notes the similarity between the joint book reading
>> activities of the "townspeople" in Heath's (1983) study and their
>> children and teacher-student interactions. Gordon, you might be
>> interested in learning that the sample of townspeople studied by Heath in
>> that study were all primary grade teachers with young children (see page
>> 392 in her 1983 book, Ways with Words). So the similarity between
>> mother-child book reading and teacher-child book reading was built into
>> the sample from the beginning.
>> Ellice Forman
>> University of Pittsburgh
>>
>>