Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Gregory, Eve, Long, Susi, 1952-, Volk, Dinah
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Subjects:	Language arts (Early childhood) > Social aspects > United States > Cross-cultural studies. Language arts (Early childhood) > Social aspects > Great Britain > Cross-cultural studies. Home and school > Cross-cultural studies. Community and school > Cross-cultural studies. Education, Bilingual > Cross-cultural studies. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

A sociocultural approach to learning / Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk
Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings / Dinah Volk with Martha de Acosta
Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home / Rose Drury
'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London / Ann Williams
Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multi-media age / Clare Kelly
Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma Olmedo
Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy / Susi Long with Donna Bell and Jim Brown
Community school pupils re-interpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers / Charmian Kenner
'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers / Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory
Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts / Manjula Datta
Learning to be just : interactions of white working class peers / Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley
Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community / Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, and Elia K. Ta'ase
Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school / Leena Helavaara Robertson
The African American church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children / Gwendolyn McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards
His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church / Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black
Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children / Mary Eunice Romero.