Literacy through family, community, and school interaction
By: volume editor Steven B. Silvern.
Contributors: Silvern, Steven B.
Series: Advances in reading/language research -- v. 5
Publisher: JAI Press, Inc.
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn; London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Education -- Parent participation; Literacy; Readiness for school
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Child-adult interaction in home and community: contributions to understanding literacy; title: Toward a taxonomy of the roles home environments play in the formation of educationally significant individual differences; title: Family environments and children's representational thinking; title: Head Start's influence on parental competence and child competence; title: Parent involvement and achievement in high school; title: Home support for successful learning; title: Black families and literacy; title: Literacy learning: a community-mediated approach; title: Introducing computers to homes and schools in an urban poverty area: promises and realities; title: Literacy and teachers' views of school-home communications; title: Effects on student achievement of teachers' practices of parent involvement; title: Interpersonal literacy.