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Growing up literate : learning from inner-city families / Denny Taylor, Catherine Dorsey-Gaines ; with a forword by Rudine Sims Bishop.
LIBRA LC5131 .T39 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Denny, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City children--Education--United States--Language arts--Case studies.
- City children--Education.
- Literacy.
- Urban poor.
- Social conditions.
- United States.
- City children.
- African American families--Case studies.
- African American families.
- Urban poor--United States--Social conditions--Case studies.
- Literacy--United States--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, N. H. : Heinemann, [1988]
- Summary:
- Through their focus on children who were successfully learning to read and write despite extraordinary economic hardship, this multiracial team presents new images of the strengths of the family as educator.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 231-234.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0435084577
- OCLC:
- 17327647
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