young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
RoutledgeFalmer,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xvi, 251 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-244) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive, this book examines how young children take literacy learning into their own hands.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
eBook Library
Stock Number
EBL198369
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Many pathways to literacy.
International Standard Book Number
0415306167
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Community and school, Cross-cultural studies.
Education, Bilingual, Cross-cultural studies.
Home and school, Cross-cultural studies.
Language arts (Early childhood)-- Social aspects-- Great Britain, Cross-cultural studies.
Language arts (Early childhood)-- Social aspects-- United States, Cross-cultural studies.