Critique of Nell K. Duke and Victoria Purcell-Gates' Genres at Home and at School: Bridging the Known to the New

Nell K. Duke and Victoria Purcell-Gates comment on family and school genre Comment: The new Nell K. Duke and Victoria Purcell-Gates articles are called "families and school genre: known new bridging" Society There are two types of reports from schools against young children with a low background of economic status (SES).

In short, the type is a text format using a specific format and structure (Duke & Purcell-Gates, 2003). From the stage of elementary school, students need to know that there are different types of text with their own characteristics, purpose and custom. Even very young students can write helpful texts to learn the story text to tell stories, write persuasive words to convince the reader, and bring facts to the reader . We use the word "genre" to provide students a way to organize and talk about their observations.

Teaching students clearly to identify specific types will help students fill the cultural gap that they see in their homes and schools. At home, students can not necessarily access the same type of text as school. For example, in many families, students are more likely to be exposed to game based texts, letters, emails, and picture books. At school, you can interact with scholarly texts such as short stories, novels, textbooks and articles. Educators can fill in differences between literacy rates of families and schools by examining the sentences they see at home and teaching them to analyze all kinds of literature.

Victoria Purcell-Gates, a professor of literacy ability, wrote a perspective on "background" and "deficit" about family background. As the teacher knows, children come to school and have different experiences in reading, writing and other literacy activities at home. Even a person who speaks English speaks a different dialect. However, Purcell Gates interprets the identity of a child as an inherent defect or defect, not an empirical difference, if the family is poor, uneducated, or a "nonstandard" dialect I point out that there is a high possibility.