Bringing Literacy Home

 

About the Editors

Contributors

Introduction

Section 1: Supporting Families in School-Based Literacy Practices

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Chapter 1
Family Literacy or Community Learning? Some Critical Questions on Perspective
Shirley Brice Heath   FREE!

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Chapter 2
Home Is Not Where You Live, But Where They Understand You
Nancy Frey

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Chapter 3
The Parental Involvement Process: Implications for Literacy Development
Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, Manya C. Whitaker

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Chapter 4
Characteristics of Three Family Literacy Programs That Worked
Lesley Mandel Morrow, Alan L. Mendelsohn, Melanie R. Kuhn

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Chapter 5
Talking Over Books at Home and in School
Nancy Roser

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Chapter 6
Stories, Facts, and Possibilities: Bridging the Home and School Worlds for Nonmainstream Students
Diane Lapp

Section 2: Connecting School With Home Culture

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Chapter 7
Teaching Literacy in Cultural Context
Geneva Gay

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Chapter 8
The Role of Family Literacy Programs in the School Success or Failure of African American Families and Children
Patricia A. Edwards

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Chapter 9
Latino Culture and Schooling: Reflections on Family Literacy With a Culturally and Linguistically Different Community
Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown

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Chapter 10
Making the Book Talk: Literacy in Successful Urban Classrooms and Communities
Gloria Ladson-Billings

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Chapter 11
Making Up for Lost Time: Connecting Inexperienced Teenage Readers With Books
Gay Ivey

Section 3: Implications for Family Literacy Research and Scholarship

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Chapter 12
Writing the Next Chapter in Family Literacy: Clues to Long-Term Effects
Jeanne R. Paratore, Barbara Krol-Sinclair, Brooke David, Adina Schick

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Chapter 13
Cultivating New Funds of Knowledge Through Research and Practice
Juis C. Moll, Julio Cammarota

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Chapter 14
Considering Time in the Field of Family Literacy and in the Lives of Families
Catherine Compton-Lilly

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Chapter 15
Rethinking Family Literacy Through a Critical Lens: A Focus on Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis

Chapter 16
“I Don't Want You to Die in Your Entire Life. If You Do I'll Bring You Flowers”: Words in Families and Word Families at School
Denny Taylor

Author Index

Subject Index

 

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