Becoming Literate in the City
Subtitle: The Baltimore Early Childhood Project
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521772020
Subjects: Child & developmental psychology; English (ie as school subject); Teaching of a specific subject; Preschool & Kindergarten; General; Early childhood education; Sociology - Urban; Education / Teaching; English; Psychology; Maryland; Literacy; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Baltimore; Education; Longitudinal studies; Minorities
First sentence: Becoming literate involves the gradual assumption of ownership of a system of meanings that enables people to communicate through written texts.