In:Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 14] 2023
► pp. 48–54
2.4The alphabet method
Published online: 6 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.14.06jus
https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.14.06jus
Article outline
- Latin and Greek models
- The perspective of reading research
- Catechism primer and alphabet method in the light of reading research
- Being literate in the era of the catechism primer
- Didactic challenges
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