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050 00 $aLC151$b.M65 2005
082 00 $a302.2/244/0973$222
100 1 $aMonaghan, E. Jennifer,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82090754
245 10 $aLearning to read and write in Colonial America /$cE. Jennifer Monaghan.
260 $aAmherst :$bUniversity of Massachusetts Press ;$aWorcester :$bAmerican Antiquarian Society,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axiii, 491 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aStudies in print culture and the history of the book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 393-460) and index.
505 00 $gPt. I.$tThe ordinary road -- $tThe congregationalists and the ordinary road, 1620 to 1730 -- $g1.$tLiteracy and the law in orthodox New England -- $g2.$tLiteracy and the Indians of Massachusetts bay -- $g3.$tBooks read by children at home and at school -- $g4.$tDeath and literacy in two devout Boston families -- $tThe Anglicans and the ordinary road, 1701 to 1776 -- $g5.$tThe literacy mission of the S.P.G. -- $g6.$tLiteracy and the Mohawks -- $gPt. II.$tDecades of transition, 1730 to 1750 -- $g7.$tSchools, schoolteachers, and schoolchildren -- $g8.$tThe rise of the spelling book -- $gPt. III.$tNew paths to literacy acquisition, 1750 to 1776 -- $g9.$tLiteracy instruction and the enslaved -- $g10.$tWriting instruction -- $g11.$tThe new world of children's books -- $g12.$tLiteracy in three families of the 1770s -- $tAfterword : the lessons -- $gApp. 1.$tSignature literacy in colonial America, the United States, and the Atlantic World, 1650 to 1810 -- $gApp. 2.$tThe alphabet method of reading instruction -- $gApp. 3.$tProduction of American imprints, 1695 to 1790 -- $gApp. 4.$tAmerican imprints versus English exports, 1710 to 1780.
520 1 $a"E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to 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." "For the most part, religious motives underlay reading instruction in colonial America while secular motives led to writing instruction. Monaghan illuminates the history of these activities through a series of deeply researched and readable case studies. An Anglican missionary battles mosquitoes and loneliness to teach the New York Mohawks to write in their own tongue. Puritan fathers model scriptural reading for their children as they struggle with bereavement. Boys in writing schools, preparing for careers in counting houses, wield their quill pens in the difficult task of mastering a "good hand." Benjamin Franklin learns how to compose essays with no teacher but himself. Young orphans in Georgia write precocious letters to their benefactor, George Whitefield, while schools from Rhode Island to South Carolina teach enslaved black children to read but never to write." "As she tells these stories, Monaghan clears new pathways in the analysis of colonial literacy. She pioneers in exploring the implications of the separation of reading and writing instruction, a topic that still resonates in today's classrooms."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aLiteracy$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aLiteracy$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y17th century.
650 0 $aBooks and reading$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
830 0 $aStudies in print culture and the history of the book.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96035939
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027600.html
852 00 $bglx$hLC151$i.M65 2005
852 00 $bushi$hLC151$i.M65 2005