The Embedded and Embodied Literacies of an Early Reader

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Mackey, Margaret

• This article argues that if we paid attention to the local situation of a reader the way we attend to the life story of an author, we might gain a very different understanding of children’s literacy. It explores the literate approaches of a single child exploring a single theme—the settler culture as represented in a variety of materials accessible to her in the 1950s—across the discourses of television cowboy shows, school and recreational texts featuring settlers and indigenous people, and a British children’s novel about claiming the land. The article suggests that this kind of miscellaneous intertextuality is a larger feature of early reading than we sometimes assume.

• Date created

  2011

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Intertextuality
  • Play
  • Space
  • Readers
  • Early literacy

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3GQ6RG3J

• License

  © 2011 Margaret Mackey. This version of this article is open access and can be downloaded and shared. The original author(s) and source must be cited.