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Literacy in African American communities

Title
Literacy in African American communities / edited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock.
Publication
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Harris, Joyce L.
  • Kamhi, Alan G., 1950-
  • Pollock, Karen E.
Description
xxvii, 310 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Public and personal meanings of literacy / Constance Dean Qualls -- "Come sit down and let mama read" : book reading interactions between African American mothers and their infants / Carol Scheffner Hammer -- Spoken and written narrative development : African American preschoolers as storytellers and storymakers / David Bloome ... [et al.] -- Emergent literacy : home-school connections / Jerrie C. Scott, Cheryl D. Marcus -- Literacy in the African diaspora : Black Caribbean American communities / Sherri L. Horner -- Reading the typography of text / James Hartley, Joyce L. Harris -- The path to reading success or failure / Alan G. Kamhi, Sandra P. Laing -- Reading performance and dialectal variation / Julie A. Washington, Holly K. Craig -- Language variation and literacy acquisition in African American students / Noma R. LeMoine -- From the pews to the classrooms : influences of the African American church on academic literacy / Beverly J. Moss -- Design and delivery issues for literacy programs serving African American adults / Thomas A. Crowe, Marie E. Byrne, Sue T. Hale -- Effects of structure strategy instruction on text recall in older African American adults / Bonnie J.F. Meyer ... [et al.] -- An age-related view of computer literacy for adult African Americans / Monica M. Huff, Wendy A. Rogers -- Coming full circle : some circumstances pertaining to low literacy achievement among African Americans / John Baugh.
Call Number
Sc E 00-1370
ISBN
  • 080583401X (alk. paper)
  • 0805834028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
99088717
OCLC
43036870
Title
Literacy in African American communities / edited by Joyce L. Harris, Alan G. Kamhi, Karen E. Pollock.
Imprint
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2001.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Harris, Joyce L.
Kamhi, Alan G., 1950-
Pollock, Karen E.
Research Call Number
Sc E 00-1370
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