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Literacy in African American Communities.

This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harris, Joyce L.
Otros Autores: Kamhi, Alan G., Pollock, Karen E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; About the Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Public and Personal Meanings of Literacy; Chapter 2 "Come Sit Down and Let Mama Read": Book Reading Interactions Between African American Mothers and Their Infants; Chapter 3 Spoken and Written Narrative Development: African American Preschoolers as Storytellers and Storymakers; Chapter 4 Emergent Literacy: Home-School Connections; Chapter 5 Literacy in the African Diaspora: Black Caribbean American Communities; Chapter 6 Reading the Typography of Text.
  • Chapter 7 The Path to Reading Success or Failure: A Choice for the New MillenniumChapter 8 Reading Performance and Dialectal Variation; Chapter 9 Language Variation and Literacy Acquisition in African American Students; Chapter 10 From the Pews to the Classrooms: Influences of the African American Church on Academic Literacy; Chapter 11 Design and Delivery Issues for Literacy Programs Serving African American Adults; Chapter 12 Eff.