Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America
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childhood education in colonial society
colonial American literacy
colonial classroom practices
colonial education and religious beliefs
colonial education reforms
colonial pedagogy
cultural implications of literacy
development of writing schools
early American writing curricula
early American writing techniques
early childhood literacy
education in New Hampshire to Georgia
education of privileged and poor children
enslaved African literacy
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gender and literacy in colonial times
history of reading instruction
impact of commercialism on writing
literacy acquisition in 18th-century America
literacy and economic opportunity
literacy and gentility
literacy and moral instruction
literacy and soc
literacy and social class
literacy development before the republic
literacy for boys and girls
literacy for indigenous communities
literacy in missionary schools
literacy in South Carolina schools
literacy instruction post-1750
Native American education in colonial America
orphans learning to write
Puritan family education
quill pen writing schools
reading and writing as separate skills
reading revolution in early America
rise of children's books for amusement
secular writing instruction
signature literacy and penmanship
teaching African Americans to read
teaching methods for reading and writing
teaching under religious motives
use of spelling books in instruction
writing education in the colonies
Product details
- ISBN 9781558495814
- Weight: 716g
- Dimensions: 160 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2007
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the sometimes wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners.
E. JENNIFER MONAGHAN is professor emerita of English, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York.
