Chapter published in:
Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, Matthew Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 14] 2023
► pp. 48–54

2.4
The alphabet method

| Bern University of Teacher Education
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
  • References
  • Notes
Published online: 06 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.14.06jus
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