Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities / edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gregory, Eve.

Long, Susi, 1952-

Volk, Dinah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts (Early childhood)--Social aspects--United States--Cross-cultural studies.

Language arts (Early childhood).

Language arts (Early childhood)--Social aspects--Great Britain--Cross-cultural studies.

Home and school--Cross-cultural studies.

Home and school.

Community and school--Cross-cultural studies.

Community and school.

Education, Bilingual--Cross-cultural studies.

Education, Bilingual.

Language arts (Early childhood)--Social aspects.

Great Britain.

United States.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 251 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [226]-244) and index.

ISBN:

0415306175

0415306167

OCLC:

52773573