Research in the Teaching of English, Vol. 42, No. 4, May 2008

Table of Contents

• EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION: The Past as Prologue

  Melanie Sperling and Anne DiPardo

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• The Social Construction of Intentionality: Two-Year-Olds’ and Adults’ Participation at a Preschool Writing Center

  Deborah Wells Rowe

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  Abstract: This paper describes how one group of Euro-American, middle-class two-year-olds living in the southern US learned to form and enact locally appropriate textual intentions and literate identities as they participated in writing events. Data were collected during a nine-month ethnographic study of two-year-olds’ and adults’ interactions at a preschool writing table.

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• Rewriting Writers Workshop: Creating Safe Spaces for Disruptive Stories

  Mitzi Lewison and Lee Heffernan

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  Abstract: This article explores a third-grade teacher’s use of critical writing pedagogy to encourage students’ exploration of issues that were important in their lives from personal as well as social perspectives.

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• On the Margins in a High-Performing High School: Policy and the Struggling Reader

  Judith K. Franzak

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  Abstract: This article extends recent work on the consequences of literacy-learning reforms by complicating the notion of “policy.”

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• GUEST REVIEWERS

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• AUTHOR INDEX/ SUBJECT INDEX: Volume 42

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