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Building upon the ideas proposed in Making Sense of a New World, this Second Edition widens its scope, arguing that policies designed for ‘monolingual minds’ be limited, while those favoring methodologies which put plurilingualism in the centre of initial literacy tuition are promoted. This book offers a practical reading program -- an ‘Inside-Out’ (starting from experience) and ‘Outside-In’ (starting from literature) approach to teaching which can be used with individuals, small groups, and whole classes. It uses current sociocultural theory, while drawing on examples of children from a variety of different countries who are engaged in learning to read nursery rhymes and songs, storybooks, letters, the Bible, and the Qur’an, in languages they do not speak fluently.
Starting with the Word: The ‘Inside-Out’ Approach in Action
Starting with the Word: The ‘Inside-Out’ Approach in Action
Tajul, our Sylheti-speaking child, is sharing a book in English with his teacher:
Teacher: (reads from The Hungry Giant)
‘… and got the giant some bread.’
Tajul: (points to bread) This not bread.
These are finger.
Teacher: It's supposed to be bread, actually.
Some bread looks like that. It's not supposed to be fingers. It's supposed to be bread.
Tajul: It's not bread.
Teacher: Well, if you go into Tesco's supermarket, you can find some long thin bread like that. What does your bread look like? Does your bread look different from that?
Tajul: My bread is square.
Teacher: Oh, your bread is square, is it? Well, some bread is long and thin and some bread is square ...
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