Many pathways to literacy : young children learning with siblings, grandparents, peers, and communities

Gregory, Eve. (Added Author). Long, Susi, 1952- (Added Author). Volk, Dinah. (Added Author).

Summary: This resource contains a series of cross-cultural studies examining contexts outside of school where children learn language and literacy with siblings, grandparents, peers and community members.

Record details

ISBN: 0415306175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0415306167 (hard : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 251 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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 multi-media age / Clare Kelly -- Storytelling and Latino elders : what can children learn? / Irma Olmedo -- Making a place for peer interaction : Mexican American kindergartners learning language and literacy / Susi Long with Donna Bell and Jim Brown -- Community school pupils re-interpret 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 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.