Many pathways to literacy
Subtitle: young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities
By: [edited by] Eve Gregory, Susi Long & Dinah Volk.
Contributors: Gregory, Eve.; Long, Susi, 1952-; Volk, Dinah.
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Language arts (Early childhood) -- Social aspects -- United States -- Cross-cultural studies.; Language arts (Early childhood) -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- Cross-cultural studies.; Home and school -- Cross-cultural studies.; Community and school -- Cross-cultural studies.; Education, Bilingual -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genres: Cross-cultural studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A sociocultural approach to learning / Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk; title: Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings / Dinah Volk with Martha de Acosta; title: Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home / Rose Drury; title: 'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London / Ann Williams; title: Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multi-media age / Clare Kelly; title: Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma Olmedo; title: Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy / Susi Long with Donna Bell and Jim Brown; title: Community school pupils re-interpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers / Charmian Kenner; title: 'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese speaking peers / Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory; title: Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts / Manjula Datta; title: Learning to be just : interactions of white working class peers / Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley; title: Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community / Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs, and Elia K. Ta'ase; title: Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school / Leena Helavaara Robertson; title: The African American church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children / Gwendolyn McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards; title: His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church / Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black; title: Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children / Mary Eunice Romero.