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Denny Taylor

Denny Taylor. Family Literacy. Ruby Lisanti. Her Story. Born Denalene Coles Kent, England Dartmoor , England “… as a working class child, I would not have been writing as a “distinguished educator,” whatever that means, without the help of a teacher.”.

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Denny Taylor

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  1. Denny Taylor Family Literacy Ruby Lisanti

  2. Her Story • Born Denalene Coles • Kent, England • Dartmoor, England “… as a working class child, I would not have been writing as a “distinguished educator,” whatever that means, without the help of a teacher.”

  3. The College YearsWhitelandsCollege, London, (now Roehampton University)Graduated 1968 “I am indelibly marked by my undergraduate education…”

  4. Higher Education • Rutgers University, Master’s Degree in the Psychology of Reading, received 1977 • Teacher’s College, Columbia University, Master’s Degree, received 1980. • Teacher’s College, Columbia University, Doctorial Degree, received 1981

  5. “Family Literacy:Young Children Learning to Read and Write” “Perhaps, it is only after children have shared stories and experienced reading and writing as complex cultural activities that they will be able to learn on an individual level through the traditional pedagogical practices of the first-grade classroom” (1983, 1998, p. 98).

  6. “Toward a Unified Theory of Literacy Learning & Instructional Practices” “It is imperative that we make the connection between the ways in which children learn language and the ways in which they use language” “When we tamper with their discovers in artificial ways and impose our hierarchies upon them, we impede their thinking and limit their chances of becoming active members of what should be, in its ideal state, a democratic society” (1989, p. 192-3)

  7. Publications • 19 Journal Articles • 8 Reviews and Forwards • 18 Contributing Chapter • 3-time guest editor and contributing author to School Talk • 4 Model, Mission and Concept papers

  8. Denny Taylor, 2013 • Professor of literacy studies in the Teaching, Literacy and Leadership program at Hofstra University, NY • Director of the International Center for Everybody's Child at HofstraUniversity, founded in 2003.http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/ICEC/icec_about.html

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