Bringing literacy home
By: KaiLonnie Dunsmore and Douglas Fisher, editors.
Contributors: Dunsmore, KaiLonnie, 1970-; Fisher, Douglas, 1965-
Publisher: International Reading Association
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780872077119
Subjects: Family literacy programs -- United States; Home and school -- United States; Education -- Parent participation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Family literacy or community learning?: some critical questions on perspective / Shirley Brice Heath; title: Home is not where you live, but where they understand you / Nancy Frey; title: The parental involvement process: implications for literacy development / Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, Manya C. Whitaker; title: Characteristics of three family literacy programs that worked / Lesley Mandel Morrow, Alan l. Mendelsohn, Melanie R. Kuhn; title: Talking over books at home and in school / Nancy Roser; title: Stories, facts, and possibilities: bridging the home and school worlds for nonmainstream students / Diane Lapp; title: Teaching literacy in cultural context / Geneva Gay; title: The role of family literacy programs in the school success or failure of African American families and children / Patricia A. Edwards; title: Latino culture and schooling: reflections on family literacy with a culturally and linguistically different community / Flora V. Rodríguez-Brown; title: Making the book talk: literacy in successful urban classrooms and communities / Gloria Ladson-Billings; title: Making up for lost time: connecting inexperienced teenage readers with books / Gay Ivey; title: Writing the next chapter in family literacy: clues to long-term effects / Jeanne R. Paratore ... [et al.]; title: Cultivating new funds of knowledge through research and practice / Luis C. Moll, Julio Cammarota; title: Considering time in the field of family literacy and in the lives of families / Catherine Compton-Lilly; title: Rethinking family literacy through a critical lens: a focus on culturally and linguistically diverse families / Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis; title: "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.