Abstract of

Issues in Urban Literacy
Evidence-Based Literacy Education and the African American Child

J. Helen Perkins

Robert B. Cooter, Jr.

The authors review two evidence-based literacy studies conducted with low-income, urban, African American children. The first was a longitudinal study focused on developing prerequisite early literacy skills with preschoolers living at the poverty level. The second study focused on effective literacy practices at the elementary level.

Abstract from Perkins, J., & Cooter, Jr., R.B. (2005, October). Evidence-Based Literacy Education and the African American Child. The Reading Teacher, 59(2), 194–198. doi: 10.1598/RT.59.2.9