Research Catalog

Title

Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities / edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk.

Publication

New York ; London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

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Additional Authors

• Gregory, Eve.
• Long, Susi, 1952-
• Volk, Dinah.

Description

xvi, 251 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• 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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-244) and index.

Contents

A sociocultural approach to learning / Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk -- Mediating networks for literacy learning : the role of Puerto Rican siblings / Dinah Volk with Martha de Acosta -- Samia and Sadaqat play school : early bilingual literacy at home / Rose Drury -- 'Right, get your book bags!' : siblings playing school in multiethnic London / Ann Williams -- Buzz Lightyear in the nursery : intergenerational literacy learning in a multimedia age / Clare Kelly -- Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma M. Olmedo -- Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergarteners learning language and literacy / Susi Long with Donna Bell and Jim Brown -- Community school pupils reinterpret their knowledge of Chinese and Arabic for primary school peers / Charmian Kenner -- 'How do I read these words?' : bilingual exchange teaching between Cantonese-speaking peers / Yuangguang Chen and Eve Gregory -- Friendship literacy : young children as cultural and linguistic experts / Manjula Datta -- Learning to be just : interactions of white working-class peers / Rebecca Rogers and Melissa Mosley -- Change and tradition in literacy instruction in a Samoan American community / Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs and Elia K. Ta'ase -- Multilingual flexibility and literacy learning in an Urdu community school / Leena Helavaara Robertson -- The African American church : a beacon of light on the pathway to literacy for African American children / Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon and Patricia A. Edwards -- His eye on the sparrow : teaching and learning in an African American church / Wendy L. Haight and Janet Carter-Black -- Cultural literacy in the world of Pueblo children / Mary Eunice Romero.

Call Number

JFE 04-8841

ISBN

• 0415306175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415306167 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003016882

OCLC

vendor

Title

Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities / edited by Eve Gregory, Susi Long, Dinah Volk.

Imprint

New York ; London : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-244) and index.

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Added Author

Gregory, Eve.

Long, Susi, 1952-

Volk, Dinah.

Research Call Number

JFE 04-8841