Awakening to Literacy

by Frank Smith

How do children become literate without formal schooling? This issue forms the main subject of this volume in which eighteen distinguished researchers with extensive and overlapping backgrounds in anthropology, linguistics, psychology, sociology, and education discuss research findings on preschool literacy.

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First published April 3, 1984

About the author

Frank Smith was a psycholinguist recognized for his contributions in linguistics and cognitive psychology. He was contributor to research on the nature of the reading process together with researchers such as George Armitage Miller, Kenneth S. Goodman (see Ken Goodman), Paul A. Kolers, Jane W. Torrey, Jane Mackworth, Richard Venezky, Robert Calfee, and Julian Hochberg. Smith and Goodman were singled out as originators of the modern psycholinguistic approach to reading instruction.