Learning to Read in a New Language: Making Sense of Words and Worlds

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.